Evidence map›Paper›PMID 18565995›Full record

ReviewThe Journal of physiology2008

Retinal ganglion cells in diabetes.

Timothy S Kern, Alistair J Barber

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In one paragraph

Review in The Journal of physiology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 218 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
218citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
17.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

218 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 419 citations in OpenAlex.

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158 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Timothy S KernCenter for Diabetes Research, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA. tsk@case.edu
Alistair J Barber
Case Western Reserve University · USPennsylvania State University · US

Funding

STUDY OF DIABETIC RETINOPATHYR01EY000300 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON · PI KERN, TIMOTHY S · 1985 to 2013
$4.7M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY000300NEI NIH HHS R01EY00300
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic retinopathy has long been recognized as a vascular disease that develops in most patients, and it was believed that the visual dysfunction that develops in some diabetics was due to the vascular lesions used to characterize the disease. It is becoming increasingly clear that neuronal cells of the retina also are affected by diabetes, resulting in dysfunction and even degeneration of some neuronal cells. Retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) are the best studied of the retinal neurons with respect to the effect of diabetes. Although investigations are providing new information about RGCs in diabetes, including therapies to inhibit the neurodegeneration, critical information about the function, anatomy and response properties of these cells is yet needed to understand the relationship between RGC changes and visual dysfunction in diabetes.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DeathDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalDiabetic RetinopathyHumansMiceRatsRetinal Ganglion Cells

Identifiers

PMID18565995
PMCPMC2614025
OpenAlexW2151487984

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