Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19707269›Full record

ArticlePLoS biology2009

Selective remodeling: refining neural connectivity at the neuromuscular junction.

Won-Suk Chung, Ben A Barres

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Article in PLoS biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Motor function recovery: deciphering a regenerative niche at the neuromuscular synapse.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021
    Review
  3. Mechanisms of developmental neurite pruning.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2015
    Review
  4. Glial cells decipher synaptic competition at the mammalian neuromuscular junction.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2013
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Won-Suk ChungDepartment of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA. wschung@stanford.edu
Ben A Barres

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A primer on new research by Fuentes-Medel and colleagues explains the important role of non-neural cells in clearing neural debris, which is continuously produced during the normal remodeling processes that establish and maintain neural connectivity.

Indexed as

AnimalsDrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsLarvaMembrane ProteinsMicroscopy, ConfocalMusclesNeurogliaNeuromuscular JunctionPresynaptic TerminalsReverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain ReactionSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionDrosophila Proteinsdrpr protein, DrosophilaMembrane Proteins

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PMID19707269
PMCPMC2722723

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