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ReviewFEBS letters2012

BMP signaling in wing development: A critical perspective on quantitative image analysis.

Alexander Brooks, Wei Dou, Xiaoying Yang, Tara Brosnan, Michael Pargett, Laurel A Raftery, David M Umulis

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In one paragraph

Review in FEBS letters, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 37% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Mechanisms and Measurements of Scale Invariance of Morphogen Gradients.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2018
    Article
  5. Inwardly rectifying potassium channels influenceDevelopment (Cambridge, England) · 2017
    Article
  6. Article
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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Alexander BrooksSchool of Life Sciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 4505 S. Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-4004, USA.
Wei Dou
Xiaoying Yang
Tara Brosnan
Michael Pargett
Laurel A Raftery
David M Umulis
Purdue University West Lafayette · USUniversity of Nevada, Las Vegas · US

Funding

TGF-BETA FAMILY REGULATION OF EPITHELIAL MORPHOGENESISR01GM060501 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS · PI RAFTERY, LAUREL A · 2000 to 2012
$4.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS 5R01GM60501-13NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM060501
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs) are critical for pattern formation in many animals. In numerous tissues, BMPs become distributed in spatially non-uniform profiles. The gradients of signaling activity can be detected by a number of biological assays involving fluorescence microscopy. Quantitative analyses of BMP gradients are powerful tools to investigate the regulation of BMP signaling pathways during development. These approaches rely heavily on images as spatial representations of BMP activity levels, using them to infer signaling distributions that inform on regulatory mechanisms. In this perspective, we discuss current imaging assays and normalization methods used to quantify BMP activity profiles with a focus on the Drosophila wing primordium. We find that normalization tends to lower the number of samples required to establish statistical significance between profiles in controls and experiments, but the increased resolvability comes with a cost. Each normalization strategy makes implicit assumptions about the biology that impacts our interpretation of the data. We examine the tradeoffs for normalizing versus not normalizing, and discuss their impacts on experimental design and the interpretation of resultant data.

Indexed as

AnimalsBone Morphogenetic ProteinsComputer SimulationDose-Response Relationship, DrugDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsFluorescent DyesHumansImage Processing, Computer-AssistedMicroscopy, FluorescenceModels, BiologicalModels, StatisticalModels, TheoreticalSignal TransductionSoftwareWings, AnimalBone Morphogenetic Proteinsdpp protein, DrosophilaDrosophila ProteinsFluorescent Dyes

Identifiers

PMID22710168
PMCPMC4148302
OpenAlexW2095438588

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