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ReviewThe Journal of cell biology2013

The cell biology of disease: cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying muscular dystrophy.

Fedik Rahimov, Louis M Kunkel

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Review in The Journal of cell biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 141 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
141citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
10.8field-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

141 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 231 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Therapeutic exercises and its impact on fatigue, physical endurance and exercise tolerance in late-onset muscular dystrophies: a systematic review & meta-analysis.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  2. Meta-analysis of the efficacy and safety of vamorolone in Duchenne muscular dystrophy.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2025
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  18. Measurement of Murine Neuromuscular Function Using the In Situ Preparation.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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  20. Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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81 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fedik RahimovProgram in Genomics, Division of Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital, and 2 Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. frahimov@enders.tch.harvard.edu
Louis M Kunkel
Boston Children's Hospital · USHarvard University · US

Funding

Myogenesis Studies for FSHD BiomarkersU54HD060848 · NICHD · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI EMERSON, CHARLES P. · 2008 to 2017
$16.1M
NICHD NIH HHS 5U54HD060848NICHD NIH HHS U54 HD060848
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The muscular dystrophies are a group of heterogeneous genetic diseases characterized by progressive degeneration and weakness of skeletal muscle. Since the discovery of the first muscular dystrophy gene encoding dystrophin, a large number of genes have been identified that are involved in various muscle-wasting and neuromuscular disorders. Human genetic studies complemented by animal model systems have substantially contributed to our understanding of the molecular pathomechanisms underlying muscle degeneration. Moreover, these studies have revealed distinct molecular and cellular mechanisms that link genetic mutations to diverse muscle wasting phenotypes.

Indexed as

AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalGenetic Complementation TestHumansMuscle, SkeletalMuscular DystrophiesMutationSarcomeresSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID23671309
PMCPMC3653356
OpenAlexW2132728036

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