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ReviewGlycoconjugate journal

The contribution of in vivo manipulation of gene expression to the understanding of the function of glypicans.

Jorge Filmus

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Review in Glycoconjugate journal. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 53% 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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jorge FilmusSunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, and Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada. jorge.filmus@swchsc.on.ca
Sunnybrook Health Science Centre · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The name glypican identifies a family of heparan sulfate proteoglycans that are linked to the cell surface by a glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor. Members of this family have been identified in Drosophila, zebrafish, and mammals. The interest in the study of glypicans has increased in the last few years as a result of the discovery that the glypican-3 gene (GPC-3) is mutated in an overgrowth and dysmorphic syndrome. Despite the increased interest, our knowledge about the function of glypicans is still limited, since the molecular basis for the role of glypican-3 in the regulation of body size remains unknown. The in vivo manipulation of glypican expression in lower organisms, however, has demonstrated that these proteoglycans can modulate cellular responses to Wnts and bone morphogenetic factors. Future studies should investigate whether the phenotype of GPC-3-deficient individuals is also due to altered modulation of cellular responses to these factors.

Indexed as

AnimalsDrosophilaGene ExpressionGlypicansGrowth DisordersHeparan Sulfate ProteoglycansHumansMammalsMembrane ProteinsMiceMutationNeoplasm ProteinsSyndromeZebrafishGlypicansGPC3 protein, humanHeparan Sulfate ProteoglycansMembrane ProteinsNeoplasm Proteins

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PMID12975611
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