Glutathione

Steady

Glutathione appears in 7,086 indexed publications going back to 2017, including 385 in the past twelve months. 146 registered trials appear on ClinicalTrials.gov, 2 with Australian sites.

7,086

Indexed publications

385

Past 12 months, against 402 the year before

146

Registered clinical trials

14,935

Monthly readers on Wikipedia, up 30%

On This Figure
Glutathione is a naturally occurring antioxidant studied across most of biology, so this figure describes a whole field rather than one product.

Research Activity

Publication history

How much work has been indexed each year, from Europe PMC. Momentum is measured over a trailing twelve months rather than calendar years, so a partial current year never reads as a decline.

20152026

Publications per year. The final bar is the current year, still in progress.

Indexed publications per year
2015	0
2016	0
2017	1
2018	3
2019	6
2020	16
2021	30
2022	75
2023	93
2024	180
2025	338
2026	257

Public Attention

Who is looking it up

Monthly readers of the Glutathione article on English Wikipedia. An independent measure of curiosity, which often moves quite differently from the evidence.

2025-082026-07

Clinical Trials

The registered pipeline

Early Phase 1

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

2 trials have a registered Australian site.

Phase distribution across the most recently updated registered trials.

Withdrawn·Not applicable
Dietary Cysteine and Methionine Deprivation (CMD) in Glioma Patients
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center · estimated completion 2028-07
Not yet recruiting·Phase 1
Tolerability of Enteral NAC in Infants
Sanjiv Harpavat · estimated completion 2030-10
Enrolling by invitation·Not applicable
Physiological Effects of N-Acetyl Cysteine in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis
Thomas Jefferson University · estimated completion 2027-07-08
Completed·Phase 3
Study to Evaluate the Efficacy & Safety of the INTERCEPT Blood System for RBCs in Complex Cardiac Surgery Patients
Cerus Corporation · completed 2023-12-04
Completed·Not applicable
The Impact of Oral Glutathione on Oxidative Damage and Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) Levels in Type 2 Diabetes Patients
S.LAB (SOLOWAYS) · completed 2024-01-30
Recruiting·Phase 2
Beneficial Effect of Silymarin in Ulcerative Colitis
Tanta University · completed 2025-05

References

Most recent work

The newest indexed records mentioning Glutathione, listed by publication date. Titles are shown as published and link to their source. Inclusion here is a record of what exists, not a judgement of what it shows.

2026-06-19·Synthetic and systems biotechnology
Key molecular networks underlying retinol's biphasic effects on cell proliferation through multi-omics integrative analysis using genome-scale metabolic modeling
He P, Xiang G, Yan Y et al.
2026-07-08·Veterinary and animal science
Impact of chronic dietary aflatoxin B1 intake on rumen fermentation, hepatic health, oxidative stress, inflammation, and glucose-lipid metabolism in fat-tailed ewes
Ider N, Khalilvandi-Behroozyar H, Ahmadpour A et al.
2026-06-06·Journal of colloid and interface science
A novel cascade enzyme/fenton reaction approach for enhanced chemodynamic and starvation therapy
Tang Z, Chen K, Jin Q et al.
2026-05-28·Journal of colloid and interface science
A pH/glutathione-dual-responsive drug-loaded heterostructure nanozyme for synergistic chemotherapy/chemodynamic therapy against melanoma
Zhou Y, Liu Y, Feng Y et al.
2026-04-30·Biomaterials
Hide-and-seek molecular navigator targets tumor cell surface thiols by programmable disulfide exchange
Chen P, Hu G, Yang W et al.
2026-05-15·Tissue & cell
Topical eucalyptol accelerates the healing of MRSA-infected diabetic wounds in rats by regulating TLR4, NF-κB, VEGFA and MMP-9 pathways
Kirgiz O, Kirgiz FC, Akcakavak G et al.
2026-10-01·Aquaculture.
Impacts of present heat waves in freshwater environments during out-growth phase in rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, underscores the need of new wisely designed mitigation strategies: climatological, physiological and molecular analyses
Riesco MF, Calvo-Rodríguez L, Esteban MÁ et al.
2026-07-17·Photobiomodulation, photomedicine, and laser surgery
Study on the Protective Effect and Underlying Mechanisms of <i>Sarcandra glabra</i> Extract Against UVB-Induced Photodamage in Zebrafish
Zhang Y, Yu Y. et al.

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Sources

Publication data from Europe PMC. Clinical trial data from ClinicalTrials.gov, U.S. National Library of Medicine. Public attention from Wikimedia pageview data. Evidence grades from reptides.co. We report counts and dates from these sources and link every record to its origin, we do not summarise findings. Last synced 2026-08-02.