Evidence map›Paper›PMID 12882358›Full record

ReviewCerebellum (London, England)2002

The beta-thymosins, small actin-binding peptides widely expressed in the developing and adult cerebellum.

Jaime Gómez-Márquez, Ramón Anadón

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Review in Cerebellum (London, England), 2002. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Thymosin beta4: a candidate for treatment of stroke?Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jaime Gómez-MárquezDepartamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Facultad de Biología, Universidad de Santiago, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. bnjgm@usc.es
Ramón Anadón
Universidade de Santiago de Compostela · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The beta-thymosins are a highly conserved family of small polar peptides known to bind monomeric actin and inhibit its polymerization. The beta-thymosins show a high degree of sequence conservation among all vertebrate classes and they have been also identified in some invertebrate phyla. The most abundant beta-thymosins in mammals are thymosin beta4 (Tbeta4) and thymosin beta10 (Tbeta10), two ubiquitous small (43 amino acids) peptides sharing a high degree of sequence homology. Both beta-thymosins are present in virtually all mammalian tissues and cells studied, showing distinct patterns of expression in several tissues. The beta-thymosins are expressed in the developing and mature nervous system, indicating their participation with other actin-binding peptides in the control of actin polymerization. In the rat cerebellum the temporal and cellular patterns of expression of Tbeta4 and Tbeta10 are different, suggesting that each beta-thymosin could play a specific physiological function during cerebellum development. The possible roles of beta-thymosins in the developing mammalian cerebellum are discussed.

Indexed as

AnimalsCerebellumHumansMicrofilament ProteinsThymosinThymosin beta(4)Microfilament ProteinsThymosinthymosin beta(10)Thymosin beta(4)

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PMID12882358
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