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ReviewThe Journal of cell biology2010

Review series: The cell biology of hearing.

Martin Schwander, Bechara Kachar, Ulrich Müller

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Review in The Journal of cell biology, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 176 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
176citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

176 citing papers in PubMed, 290 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Martin SchwanderDepartment of Cell Biology, Dorris Neuroscience Center, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Bechara Kachar
Ulrich Müller
Scripps Research Institute · USNational Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Structural and Molecular Basis of Transduction in Auditory Sensory OrgansZIADC000002 · NIDCD · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND OTHER COMMUNICATION DISORDERS · PI KACHAR, BECHARA · 2009 to 2025
$38.3M
Mechanosensor Development, Function, and DysfunctionR01DC005965 · NIDCD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI MUELLER, ULRICH · 2003 to 2023
$10.2M
Mouse models to study inherited forms of deafnessR01DC007704 · NIDCD · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI MUELLER, ULRICH · 2005 to 2014
$5.0M
Intramural NIH HHSNIDCD NIH HHS DC005965NIDCD NIH HHS DC007704NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC005965NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC007704
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mammals have an astonishing ability to sense and discriminate sounds of different frequencies and intensities. Fundamental for this process are mechanosensory hair cells in the inner ear that convert sound-induced vibrations into electrical signals. The study of genes that are linked to deafness has provided insights into the cell biological mechanisms that control hair cell development and their function as mechanosensors.

Indexed as

AnimalsDeafnessHair Cells, Auditory, InnerHearingHumansMechanotransduction, Cellular

Identifiers

PMID20624897
PMCPMC2911669
OpenAlexW1916027575

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