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ReviewCerebellum (London, England)2006

The puzzle of ploidy of Purkinje neurons.

Ugo Del Monte

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Review in Cerebellum (London, England), 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 43% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. DNA endoreplication in the brain neurons during body growth of an adult slug.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ugo Del MonteInstitute of General Pathology, University of Milano, Milano, Milan, Italy. ugo.delmonte@unimi.it
University of Milan · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper places attention on the discrepancies existing in the literature on the ploidy of Purkinje neurons and focuses on the special case of partial replication of their genome and on the unequal frequency of polyploid Purkinje neurons in the cerebellar cortex of the lobes and the vermis. Owing to the compartmental structure of the cerebellum, this paper suggests the investigation with modern methods and techniques of other cerebellar regions such as the flocculus, with the aim of establishing whether increased ploidy correlates with cell hypertrophy and/or with stimulation of cerebellar functions.

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PloidiesAgingAnimalsCerebellar CortexCerebellumGenomeHumansPurkinje Cells

Identifiers

PMID16527760
OpenAlexW2076966916

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Registered trials

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