Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19818623›Full record

ReviewTrends in cell biology2009

Green light to illuminate signal transduction events.

Tamas Balla

Open access · greenAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Trends in cell biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The CaPediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2025
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  8. Studying ligand efficacy at G protein-coupled receptors using FRET.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2011
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tamas BallaSection on Molecular Signal Transduction, Program on Developmental Neuroscience, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. ballat@mail.nih.gov
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Phosphoinositide-calcium Signaling In Cell RegulationZIAHD000196 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI BALLA, TAMAS · 2009 to 2025
$26.3M
PHOSPHOINOSITIDE-CALCIUM SIGNALING IN CELL REGULATIONZ01HD000196 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI BALLA, TAMAS · 1998 to 2008
$1.9M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 HD000196
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When cells are exposed to hormones that act on cell surface receptors, information is processed through the plasma membrane into the cell interior via second messengers generated in the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane. Individual biochemical steps along this cascade have been characterized from ligand binding to receptors through to activation of guanine nucleotide binding proteins and their downstream effectors such as adenylate cyclase or phospholipase C. However, the complexity of temporal and spatial integration of these molecular events requires that they are studied in intact cells. The great expansion of fluorescent techniques and improved imaging technologies such as confocal and TIRF microscopy combined with genetically-engineered protein modules has provided a completely new approach to signal transduction research. Spatial definition of biochemical events followed with real-time temporal resolution has become a standard goal, and several new techniques are now breaking the resolution barrier of light microscopy.

Indexed as

Signal TransductionAnimalsCell BiologyCytological TechniquesHumansLuminescent ProteinsMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, FluorescenceLuminescent Proteins

Identifiers

PMID19818623
PMCPMC2783671
OpenAlexW2032662341

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Registered trials

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