Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20552433›Full record

ArticleMethods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)2010

Visualization of retinoid storage and trafficking by two-photon microscopy.

Yoshikazu Imanishi, Krzysztof Palczewski

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Structure and dynamics of photoreceptor sensory cilia.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2021
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Endogenous fluorophores enable two-photon imaging of the primate eye.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2014
    Article
  8. Two-photon microscopy reveals early rod photoreceptor cell damage in light-exposed mutant mice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2014
    Article
  9. Review
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. Article
  13. Retinoids for treatment of retinal diseases.Trends in pharmacological sciences · 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yoshikazu ImanishiDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106-4965, USA.
Krzysztof Palczewski
Case Western Reserve University · US

Funding

TISSUE CULTURE AND HYBRIDOMA MODULEP30EY011373 · NEI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI Irina A Pikuleva · 1997 to 2026
$17.7M
STRUCTURAL STUDIES OF ARRESTINSR01EY009339 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI KISER, PHILIP DAVID, PALCZEWSKI, KRZYSZTOF · 1992 to 2025
$16.0M
Illuminating the process of rod outer segment morphogenesisR01EY020826 · NEI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI IMANISHI, YOSHIKAZU · 2010 to 2013
$1.4M
NEI NIH HHS EY009339NEI NIH HHS P30 EY011373NEI NIH HHS P30 EY11373NEI NIH HHS R01 EY009339NEI NIH HHS R01 EY020826
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vertebrate vision is maintained by the retinoid (visual) cycle, a complex enzymatic pathway that operates in the retina to regenerate the visual chromophore, 11-cis-retinal, a prosthetic group of rhodopsin that undergoes activation by light. Many different mutations in genes encoding retinoid cycle proteins can cause a variety of human blinding diseases. Two-photon microscopy is an evolving, non-invasive, and repetitive imaging technology that can be used to monitor biomolecules within the vertebrate retina at a subcellular resolution. This method has the great advantage of portraying endogenous retinoid fluorophores in their native state without the need for artificial staining. Such real-time retinal imaging permits rapid evaluation not only of various stages of retinal disease in live animal models of human retinopathies but also of the outcome from intended pharmacological therapies. Two-photon microscopy offers substantial potential for early detection of age- and disease-related changes in the eye, long before clinical or pathological manifestations become apparent.

Indexed as

PhotonsAnimalsBiological TransportEstersEye ProteinsHumansMiceMicroscopyMolecular ImagingRetinal Pigment EpitheliumRetinoidsEstersEye ProteinsRetinoids

Identifiers

PMID20552433
PMCPMC4607074
OpenAlexW2396919516

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.