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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2006

How do genes regulate simple behaviours? Understanding how different neurons in the vertebrate spinal cord are genetically specified.

Katharine E Lewis

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 25% 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

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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Mitochondria in Embryogenesis: An Organellogenesis Perspective.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2019
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  20. A structural and genotypic scaffold underlying temporal integration.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Katharine E LewisDepartment of Anatomy, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DY, UK. kel36@cam.ac.uk
University of Cambridge · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding how the vertebrate central nervous system develops and functions is a major goal of a large body of biological research. This research is driven both by intellectual curiosity about this amazing organ that coordinates our conscious and unconscious bodily processes, perceptions and actions and by the practical desire to develop effective treatments for people with spinal cord injuries or neurological diseases. In recent years, we have learnt an impressive amount about how the nerve cells that communicate with muscles, motoneurons, are made in a developing embryo and this knowledge has enabled researchers to grow motoneurons from stem cells. Building on the success of these studies, researchers have now started to unravel how most of the other nerve cells in the spinal cord are made and function. This review will describe what we currently know about spinal cord nerve cell development, concentrating on the largest category of nerve cells, which are called interneurons. I will then discuss how we can build and expand upon this knowledge base to elucidate the complete genetic programme that determines how different spinal cord nerve cells are made and connected up into neural circuits with particular functions.

Indexed as

Gene Expression RegulationAnimalsBehavior, AnimalInterneuronsNeuronsSpinal Cord

Identifiers

PMID16553308
PMCPMC1626545
OpenAlexW1995601641

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