Evidence map›Paper›PMID 24744365›Full record

ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2014

Neuroscience. Myelin--more than insulation.

R Douglas Fields

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
35citing 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

35 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. On hyperbolicity for nerve pulse propagation in axons.Journal of computational neuroscience · 2026
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  3. Zoological research · 2026
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  5. The physiology of interoception and its adaptive role in consciousness.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2025
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Myelin-Proteinoids Interactions in Neural Signaling.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2025
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  11. Cerebello-Cerebral Pathways Contribute to Written Word Production.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025
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  12. Article
  13. Myelination dictates axonal viscoelasticity.The European journal of neuroscience · 2023
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  14. Review
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

R Douglas FieldsNational Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Building 35, Room 2A211, MSC 3713, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.

Funding

Nervous System Development and PlasticityZIAHD000713 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI FIELDS, RICHARD DOUGLAS · 2009 to 2023
$17.7M
REGULATION OF NEURONAL GENE EXPRESSION BY ACTION POTENTIALSZ01HD000713 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI FIELDS, RICHARD DOUGLAS · 1995 to 2008
$1.7M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 HD000713
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

AnimalsMyelin SheathNeocortexPyramidal CellsSomatosensory CortexVisual Cortex

Identifiers

PMID24744365
PMCPMC5017201

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