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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2012

Branching morphogenesis: from cells to organs and back.

Amanda Ochoa-Espinosa, Markus Affolter

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers.

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66citing papers in PubMed
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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

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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

66 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.

Amanda Ochoa-EspinosaBiozentrum der Universität Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
Markus Affolter

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many animal organs, such as the lung, the kidney, the mammary gland, and the vasculature, consist of branched tubular structures that arise through a process known as "branching morphogenesis" that results from the remodeling of epithelial or endothelial sheaths into multicellular tubular networks. In recent years, the combination of molecular biology, forward and reverse genetic approaches, and their complementation by live imaging has started to unravel rules and mechanisms controlling branching processes in animals. Common patterns of branch formation spanning diverse model systems are beginning to emerge that might reflect unifying principles of tubular organ formation.

Indexed as

AnimalsCardiovascular SystemCell MovementDrosophila melanogasterFemaleGene Regulatory NetworksKidneyLungMammary Glands, AnimalModels, BiologicalMorphogenesisOrganogenesisTrachea

Identifiers

PMID22798543
PMCPMC3475165

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