Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18401401›Full record

ArticleNature2008

Neurodegeneration: a question of balance.

Leslie Michels Thompson

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Article in Nature, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed
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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Nursing in Huntington's Disease and Cell and Gene Therapy.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  3. Neurotrophic Natural Products.Progress in the chemistry of organic natural products · 2024
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  10. PolyQ 2.0: an improved version of PolyQ, a database of human polyglutamine proteins.Database : the journal of biological databases and curation · 2016
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  13. Neurotrophic natural products: chemistry and biology.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Leslie Michels Thompson

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Trinucleotide Repeat ExpansionAnimalsAtaxin-1AtaxinsHumansMiceMultiprotein ComplexesNerve Tissue ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPeptidesProtein BindingProtein Structure, QuaternaryRepressor ProteinsRNA Splicing FactorsSpinocerebellar AtaxiasAtaxin-1AtaxinsATXN1 protein, humanAtxn1 protein, mouseCic protein, mouseMultiprotein ComplexesNerve Tissue ProteinsNuclear ProteinsPeptidespolyglutamineRBM17 protein, mouseRepressor ProteinsRNA Splicing Factors

Identifiers

PMID18401401

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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