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ReviewJournal of cellular and molecular medicine2012

Lucifer yellow - an angel rather than the devil.

Menachem Hanani

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Review in Journal of cellular and molecular medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

1 author.

Menachem HananiLaboratory of Experimental Surgery, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel. hananim@cc.huji.ac.il

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The fluorescent dye Lucifer yellow (LY) was introduced in 1978, and has been extremely useful in studying cell structure and communications. This dye has been used mostly for labelling cells by intracellular injection from microelectrodes. This review describes the numerous applications of LY, with emphasis on the enteric nervous system and interstitial cells of Cajal. Of particular importance is the dye coupling method, which enables the detection of cell coupling by gap junctions.

Indexed as

AnimalsCell CommunicationCells, CulturedCytological TechniquesElectrophysiologyFluorescence Recovery After PhotobleachingFluorescent DyesGap JunctionsInterstitial Cells of CajalIsoquinolinesMolecular StructureNeuronsStaining and LabelingFluorescent DyesIsoquinolineslucifer yellow

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PMID21740513
PMCPMC3823090

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