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ArticleNature methods2009

Nanoscale live-cell imaging using hopping probe ion conductance microscopy.

Pavel Novak, Chao Li, Andrew I Shevchuk, Ruben Stepanyan, Matthew Caldwell, Simon Hughes, Trevor G Smart, Julia Gorelik, Victor P Ostanin, Max J Lab and 4 more

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Article in Nature methods, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 150 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
150citing papers in PubMed
17.8field-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

150 citing papers in PubMed, 513 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

  • Erratum issued
5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Pavel NovakImperial College London, UK.
Chao Li
Andrew I Shevchuk
Ruben Stepanyan
Matthew Caldwell
Simon Hughes
Trevor G Smart
Julia Gorelik
Victor P Ostanin
Max J Lab
Guy W J Moss
Gregory I Frolenkov
David Klenerman
Yuri E Korchev
Imperial College London · GBUniversity College London · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Kentucky · US

Funding

Role of Staircase Hair Bundle Morphology in Auditory MechanotransductionR01DC008861 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI FROLENKOV, GREGORY I · 2009 to 2012
$1.5M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D01817X/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D018595/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D020816/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/D020875/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council C19021Medical Research Council G0601529NIDCD NIH HHS DC008861NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC008861
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe hopping mode scanning ion conductance microscopy that allows noncontact imaging of the complex three-dimensional surfaces of live cells with resolution better than 20 nm. We tested the effectiveness of this technique by imaging networks of cultured rat hippocampal neurons and mechanosensory stereocilia of mouse cochlear hair cells. The technique allowed examination of nanoscale phenomena on the surface of live cells under physiological conditions.

Indexed as

AnimalsCells, CulturedElectric ConductivityEquipment DesignEquipment Failure AnalysisImage EnhancementIonsMicroscopy, Scanning ProbeNanotechnologyReproducibility of ResultsSensitivity and SpecificityIons

Identifiers

PMID19252505
PMCPMC2702483
OpenAlexW2080923741

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