Evidence map›Paper›PMID 19888266›Full record

ReviewNature reviews. Molecular cell biology2009

Tissue remodelling through branching morphogenesis.

Markus Affolter, Rolf Zeller, Emmanuel Caussinus

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Review in Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 96 papers.

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96citing 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

96 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Breast Morphogenesis: From Normal Development to Cancer.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  6. Association of dysanapsis with mortality among older adults.The European respiratory journal · 2023
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  11. Cells · 2021
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  16. Autocrine inhibition of cell motility can drive epithelial branching morphogenesis in the absence of growth.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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  17. Shaping the zebrafish myotome by intertissue friction and active stress.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  20. Frontiers in genetics · 2019
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36 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

3 authors.

Markus AffolterBiozentrum, University of Basel, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland. markus.affolter@unibas.ch
Rolf Zeller
Emmanuel Caussinus

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Branched structures are evident at all levels of organization in living organisms. Many organs, such as the vascular system, lung, kidney and mammary gland, are heavily branched. In each of these cases, equally fascinating questions have been put forward, including those that address the cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the branching process itself, such as where the branches are initiated and how they extend and grow in the right direction. Recent experiments suggest that cell competition and cell rearrangements might be conserved key features in branch formation and might be controlled by local cell signalling.

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MorphogenesisAnimalsEndotheliumEpitheliumHumansOrgan Specificity

Identifiers

PMID19888266

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