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ArticleHFSP journal2008

Pulsing cells: how fast is too fast?

Saurabh Paliwal, C Joanne Wang, Andre Levchenko

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Article in HFSP journal, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing 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

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Band-pass processing in a GPCR signaling pathway selects for NFAT transcription factor activation.Integrative biology : quantitative biosciences from nano to macro · 2015
    Article
  3. Review
  4. Adaptive molecular networks controlling chemotactic migration: dynamic inputs and selection of the network architecture.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2013
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Oscillatory signaling processes: the how, the why and the where.Current opinion in genetics & development · 2010
    Review
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

3 authors.

Saurabh PaliwalDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218.
C Joanne Wang
Andre Levchenko

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Signal transduction pathways are complex coupled sets of biochemical reactions evolved to transmit and process information about the state of the immediate cell environment. Can we design experiments that would inform us about the properties and limitations of signal processing? Recent studies suggest that this indeed can be achieved by exciting a cell with carefully designed oscillatory stimuli. Although this analysis has its caveats, complex temporal stimulation of signal transduction networks can serve to rapidly advance our understanding of these information channels and ultimately create intelligent ways of controlling them.

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PMID19404435
PMCPMC2639942

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