Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22430016›Full record

ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2012

The many faces of insulin-like peptide signalling in the brain.

Ana M Fernandez, Ignacio Torres-Alemán

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 379 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
379citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
27.7field-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

379 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 864 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ana M FernandezCajal Institute, CSIC and Ciberned, Avenida Doctor Arce, 37, Madrid 28002, Spain.
Ignacio Torres-Alemán
Instituto Cajal · ES

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Central and peripheral insulin-like peptides (ILPs), which include insulin, insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF1) and IGF2, exert many effects in the brain. Through their actions on brain growth and differentiation, ILPs contribute to building circuitries that subserve metabolic and behavioural adaptation to internal and external cues of energy availability. In the adult brain each ILP has distinct effects, but together their actions ultimately regulate energy homeostasis - they affect nutrient sensing and regulate neuronal plasticity to modulate adaptive behaviours involved in food seeking, including high-level cognitive operations such as spatial memory. In essence, the multifaceted activity of ILPs in the brain may be viewed as a system organization involved in the control of energy allocation.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainCognitionEnergy MetabolismInsulinInsulin-Like Growth Factor IInsulin-Like Growth Factor IINeuronal PlasticityNeuronsInsulinInsulin-Like Growth Factor IInsulin-Like Growth Factor II

Identifiers

PMID22430016
OpenAlexW2067443877

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