Evidence map›Paper›PMID 23599898›Full record

ArticleeLife2013

Evolution, ovulation and cancer.

K Vijayraghavan, Satyajit Rath

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Article in eLife, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing 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

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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

K Vijayraghavan, a senior editor at eLife , is at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , National Centre for Biological Sciences , Bangalore , India vijay@ncbs.res.in.
Satyajit Rath

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Secretions by epithelial cells of the fallopian tube regulate ovulation through conserved pathways, which means that experiments on flies might provide insights into the human reproductive system and, possibly, ovarian cancer.

Indexed as

OvulationAnimalsDrosophila melanogasterFemaleMaleOocytesOviductscancerD. melanogasterexocrine glandsNotch signalingnuclear receptorovulationsperm storage

Identifiers

PMID23599898
PMCPMC3628404

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