Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24342989›Full record

SynthesisMolecular psychiatry2014

Decreased peripheral brain-derived neurotrophic factor levels are a biomarker of disease activity in major psychiatric disorders: a comparative meta-analysis.

B S Fernandes, M Berk, C W Turck, J Steiner, C-A Gonçalves

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Synthesis in Molecular psychiatry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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67citing papers in PubMed, 9 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

67 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 157 citations in OpenAlex.

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7 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

5 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

B S Fernandes1] Laboratory of Calcium Binding Proteins in the Central Nervous System, Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil [2] Post-graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
M Berk1] Deakin University, School of Medicine, Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia [2] Department of Psychiatry and Orygen Research Centre, Florey Institute for Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
C W TurckMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany.
J SteinerDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany.
C-A Gonçalves1] Laboratory of Calcium Binding Proteins in the Central Nervous System, Department of Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil [2] Post-graduate Program in Biological Sciences: Biochemistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul · BRBarwon Health · AUMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry · DEUniversity Hospital Magdeburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

BiomarkersBrain-Derived Neurotrophic FactorCase-Control StudiesHumansMood DisordersSchizophreniaBiomarkersBrain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor

Identifiers

PMID24342989
OpenAlexW1965205864

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