Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21572255›Full record

ArticleCell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.)2011

Biology using engineering tools: the negative feedback amplifier.

Marc R Birtwistle, Walter Kolch

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Article in Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.), 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Marc R BirtwistleSystems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Republic of Ireland. marc.birtwistle@ucd.ie
Walter Kolch

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Negative feedback is an ubiquitous feature of biological networks. Recent work from Sturm and colleaguespresents experimental evidence that biological negative feedback can serve the same function as it does for engineered systems: robustness to perturbations within the feedback loop. Such behavior has important implications for how to attack deregulated signaling networks containing negative feedback in diseases such as cancer.

Indexed as

BiologyFeedback, PhysiologicalAnimalsEpidermal Growth FactorErbB ReceptorsExtracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesHumansMitogen-Activated Protein KinasesSignal TransductionEpidermal Growth FactorErbB ReceptorsExtracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesMitogen-Activated Protein Kinases

Identifiers

PMID21572255
PMCPMC3154361

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