Evidence map›Paper›PMID 17541602›Full record

ArticleJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2007

Developmental changes in ventricular myosin isoenzymes of the tammar wallaby.

Yoonah Kim, Christine A Lucas, Wendy W H Zhong, Joseph F Y Hoh

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 27% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Research into the physiology of myosins - a personal odyssey.European journal of translational myology · 2025
    Article
  2. Developmental, physiologic and phylogenetic perspectives on the expression and regulation of myosin heavy chains in mammalian skeletal muscles.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2023
    Review
  3. Effects of hypothyroidism on myosin heavy chain composition and fibre types of fast skeletal muscles in a small marsupial, Antechinus flavipes.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2010
    Article
  4. Article
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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yoonah KimDiscipline of Physiology and the Bosch Institute, F13, School of Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia.
Christine A Lucas
Wendy W H Zhong
Joseph F Y Hoh
University of Sydney · AU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ventricular myosin in eutherian mammals undergoes a perinatal change in response to a sharp rise in thyroid hormone levels during development. In this investigation, changes in ventricular myosin heavy chains (MyHCs) of the tammar wallaby (Macropus eugenii) from early pouch life to adulthood were analysed using native gel electrophoresis, SDS-PAGE and western blotting. Adult wallaby ventricle showed three myosin isoenzymes, V(1), V(2) and V(3); western blots using specific anti-alpha-MyHC and anti-beta-MyHC antibodies showed their MyHC compositions to be alphaalpha, alphabeta and betabeta, respectively. Ventricular muscle in early pouch joeys expressed predominantly beta-MyHC. Up to 200 days, the time of initial pouch exit, alpha-MyHC content was around 5%. Thereafter, there was a sharp increase of alpha-MyHC expression to 35% by 242 days of age, eventually falling back to 23% in the adult. These changes correlate with known surges in plasma levels of thyroid hormones around pouch exit. The results suggest that ventricular myosins in a marsupial mammal also undergo a developmental change, and that marsupial ventricular myosins are thyroid responsive as in eutherians. The increased alpha-MyHC expression empowers the heart to meet the enhanced cardiovascular demands of out-of-pouch activity and the thermogenic action of thyroid hormones.

Indexed as

AnimalsBlotting, WesternCardiac MyosinsElectrophoresis, Polyacrylamide GelHeart VentriclesIsoenzymesMacropodidaeMyosin Heavy ChainsCardiac MyosinsIsoenzymesMyosin Heavy Chains

Identifiers

PMID17541602
OpenAlexW2085027900

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.