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ReviewCell2011

Measuring and modeling apoptosis in single cells.

Sabrina L Spencer, Peter K Sorger

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Review in Cell, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 163 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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163citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

163 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  19. Cell survival following direct executioner-caspase activation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Sabrina L SpencerCenter for Cell Decision Processes, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Peter K Sorger

Funding

Systems Biology of Cell Decision ProcessesP50GM068762 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI YAFFE, MICHAEL B · 2003 to 2012
$32.3M
Quantitative Analysis of Cell Death Pathways in CancerP01CA139980 · NCI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2010 to 2014
$9.0M
Quantitative analysis of pharmacological mechanism by intravital imagingR01CA164448 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI WEISSLEDER, MD, PHD, RALPH · 2011 to 2015
$4.0M
NCI NIH HHS CA139980NCI NIH HHS P01 CA139980NCI NIH HHS R01 CA164448NIGMS NIH HHS GM68762NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM068762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell death plays an essential role in the development of tissues and organisms, the etiology of disease, and the responses of cells to therapeutic drugs. Here we review progress made over the last decade in using mathematical models and quantitative, often single-cell, data to study apoptosis. We discuss the delay that follows exposure of cells to prodeath stimuli, control of mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization, switch-like activation of effector caspases, and variability in the timing and probability of death from one cell to the next. Finally, we discuss challenges facing the fields of biochemical modeling and systems pharmacology.

Indexed as

ApoptosisModels, BiologicalSingle-Cell AnalysisAnimalsCaspasesHumansMitochondrial MembranesCaspases

Identifiers

PMID21414484
PMCPMC3087303

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