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ArticleJournal of neurotrauma2014

Minimum information about a spinal cord injury experiment: a proposed reporting standard for spinal cord injury experiments.

Vance P Lemmon, Adam R Ferguson, Phillip G Popovich, Xiao-Ming Xu, Diane M Snow, Michihiro Igarashi, Christine E Beattie, John L Bixby, MIASCI Consortium

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Article in Journal of neurotrauma, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 3 of them syntheses that 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

50 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines 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

9 authors.

Vance P Lemmon1 Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami School of Medicine , Miami, Florida.
Adam R Ferguson
Phillip G Popovich
Xiao-Ming Xu
Diane M Snow
Michihiro Igarashi
Christine E Beattie
John L Bixby
MIASCI Consortium

Funding

Lesion and Activity Dependent Corticospinal Tract PlasticityR01NS064004 · NINDS · RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK D/B/A RF CUNY - CUNY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI John H Martin · 2009 to 2026
$5.2M
Characterizing Wnt Signaling Pathways in Axon GuidanceR01NS047484 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI ZOU, YIMIN · 2004 to 2017
$4.8M
Novel Gene Targets for CNS Axonal RegenerationR01HD057632 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI BIXBY, JOHN L, LEMMON, VANCE P · 2007 to 2018
$4.7M
Genetic analysis of myelin inhibitors and PTEN in injury-inducedCNS axon growthR01NS054734 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ZHENG, BINHAI · 2007 to 2015
$3.2M
Regenbase: A Searchable Database to Organize Regeneration Knowledge via OntologieR01NS080145 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI BIXBY, JOHN L, LEMMON, VANCE P · 2012 to 2015
$2.3M
Cortical Plasticity during Recovery from Spinal Cord InjuryR01NS080388 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI STRITTMATTER, STEPHEN M · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
Bioassay Ontology and Software Tools to Integrate and Analyze Diverse Data SetsRC2HG005668 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI LEMMON, VANCE P, SCHURER, STEPHAN C · 2009 to 2012
$1.7M
Bioinformatics For Translational Spinal Cord Injury ResearchR01NS067092 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI FERGUSON, ADAM R · 2010 to 2014
$1.6M
LINCS Information FramEwork (LIFE) to Integrate and Analyze Diverse Data SetU01HL111561 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI SCHURER, STEPHAN C · 2011 to 2013
$1.6M
Function of Microtubule Plus-End-Tracking Proteins in the Neuronal Growth ConeR00MH095768 · NIMH · BOSTON COLLEGE · PI LOWERY, LAURA ANNE · 2014 to 2016
$747k
Combinatorial approaches to maximize axon regeneration after spinal cord injuryR21NS081738 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI ZOU, YIMIN · 2013 to 2014
$424k
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The lack of reproducibility in many areas of experimental science has a number of causes, including a lack of transparency and precision in the description of experimental approaches. This has far-reaching consequences, including wasted resources and slowing of progress. Additionally, the large number of laboratories around the world publishing articles on a given topic make it difficult, if not impossible, for individual researchers to read all of the relevant literature. Consequently, centralized databases are needed to facilitate the generation of new hypotheses for testing. One strategy to improve transparency in experimental description, and to allow the development of frameworks for computer-readable knowledge repositories, is the adoption of uniform reporting standards, such as common data elements (data elements used in multiple clinical studies) and minimum information standards. This article describes a minimum information standard for spinal cord injury (SCI) experiments, its major elements, and the approaches used to develop it. Transparent reporting standards for experiments using animal models of human SCI aim to reduce inherent bias and increase experimental value.

Indexed as

Spinal Cord InjuriesAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalResearch Designaxonal injuryaxonal regenerationMIASCIspinal cord injury

Identifiers

PMID24870067
PMCPMC4120647

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