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ReviewGlia2008

The molecular machinery of myelin gene transcription in Schwann cells.

John Svaren, Dies Meijer

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Review in Glia, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 142 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
142citing papers in PubMed
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

142 citing papers in PubMed, 239 citations in OpenAlex.

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82 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 2 countries.

John SvarenDepartment of Comparative Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
Dies MeijerDepartment of Cell Biology and Genetics, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Erasmus MC · NLUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison · US

Funding

Genetic Control of Myelination by EGR2 and NAB proteinsR01HD041590 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI SVAREN, JOHN P · 2002 to 2011
$2.8M
NICHD NIH HHS HD41590NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD041590
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

During late fetal life, Schwann cells in the peripheral nerves singled out by the larger axons will transit through a promyelinating stage before exiting the cell cycle and initiating myelin formation. A network of extra- and intracellular signaling pathways, regulating a transcriptional program of cell differentiation, governs this progression of cellular changes, culminating in a highly differentiated cell. In this review, we focus on the roles of a number of transcription factors not only in myelination, during normal development, but also in demyelination, following nerve trauma. These factors include specification factors involved in early development of Schwann cells from neural crest (Sox10) as well as factors specifically required for transitions into the promyelinating and myelinating stages (Oct6/Scip and Krox20/Egr2). From this description, we can glean the first, still very incomplete, contours of a gene regulatory network that governs myelination and demyelination during development and regeneration.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell DifferentiationGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHumansMyelin SheathNerve Fibers, MyelinatedPeripheral Nervous SystemSchwann CellsSignal TransductionTranscription FactorsTranscription, GeneticTranscription Factors

Identifiers

PMID18803322
PMCPMC2930200
OpenAlexW2068059177

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