Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23083731›Full record

ReviewNeuron2012

The neuronal organization of the retina.

Richard H Masland

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Review in Neuron, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 563 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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563citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

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

563 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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.

Richard H MaslandDepartment of Opthamology, Harvard Medical School, 243 Charles Street, Boston, MA 02114, USA. richard_masland@meei.harvard.edu

Funding

Neuroprotection and Retinal Ganglion Cell DeathR01EY013399 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY · PI MASLAND, RICHARD HARRY · 2002 to 2011
$2.8M
Synaptic Inputs to Retinal Ganglion CellsR01EY017169 · NEI · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI MASLAND, RICHARD HARRY · 2006 to 2010
$2.0M
NEI NIH HHS EY13399NEI NIH HHS R01 EY013399NEI NIH HHS R01 EY017169
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mammalian retina consists of neurons of >60 distinct types, each playing a specific role in processing visual images. They are arranged in three main stages. The first decomposes the outputs of the rod and cone photoreceptors into ∼12 parallel information streams. The second connects these streams to specific types of retinal ganglion cells. The third combines bipolar and amacrine cell activity to create the diverse encodings of the visual world--roughly 20 of them--that the retina transmits to the brain. New transformations of the visual input continue to be found: at least half of the encodings sent to the brain (ganglion cell response selectivities) remain to be discovered. This diversity of the retina's outputs has yet to be incorporated into our understanding of higher visual function.

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NeuronsAnimalsHumansNerve NetRetinaVisual Pathways

Identifiers

PMID23083731
PMCPMC3714606

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