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ReviewBirth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews2014

Connecting teratogen-induced congenital heart defects to neural crest cells and their effect on cardiac function.

Ganga H Karunamuni, Pei Ma, Shi Gu, Andrew M Rollins, Michael W Jenkins, Michiko Watanabe

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Review in Birth defects research. Part C, Embryo today : reviews, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 34% 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

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
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  5. Folic acid prevents functional and structural heart defects induced by prenatal ethanol exposure.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2021
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  7. Environmental Risk Factors for Congenital Heart Disease.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2020
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  13. Cardiac neural crest ablation results in early endocardial cushion and hemodynamic flow abnormalities.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2016
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ganga H KarunamuniDepartment of Pediatrics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Case Medical Center Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.
Pei Ma
Shi Gu
Andrew M Rollins
Michael W Jenkins
Michiko Watanabe
Case Western Reserve University · USRainbow Babies & Children's Hospital · US

Funding

OCT Imaging Technology for Developmental Cardiology ResearchR01HL083048 · NHLBI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI ROLLINS, ANDREW MARTIN · 2006 to 2016
$3.2M
Investigating the Early Embryonic Murine Heart Using Optical Coherence TomographyR01HL095717 · NHLBI · CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY · PI ROLLINS, ANDREW MARTIN · 2009 to 2012
$3.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS HL083048NHLBI NIH HHS HL095717NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL083048NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL095717
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural crest cells play many key roles in embryonic development, as demonstrated by the abnormalities that result from their specific absence or dysfunction. Unfortunately, these key cells are particularly sensitive to abnormalities in various intrinsic and extrinsic factors, such as genetic deletions or ethanol-exposure that lead to morbidity and mortality for organisms. This review discusses the role identified for a segment of neural crest in regulating the morphogenesis of the heart and associated great vessels. The paradox is that their derivatives constitute a small proportion of cells to the cardiovascular system. Findings supporting that these cells impact early cardiac function raises the interesting possibility that they indirectly control cardiovascular development at least partially through regulating function. Making connections between insults to the neural crest, cardiac function, and morphogenesis is more approachable with technological advances. Expanding our understanding of early functional consequences could be useful in improving diagnosis and testing therapies.

Indexed as

AnimalsDisease Models, AnimalEthanolFemaleHeartHeart Defects, CongenitalHumansMorphogenesisNeural CrestPregnancyPrenatal Exposure Delayed EffectsTeratogensEthanolTeratogenscardiac; physiologycardiogenesisfolic acidneural crest cellsoptical coherence tomography; ethanol; prenatal alcohol exposure; teratogen

Identifiers

PMID25220155
PMCPMC4238913
OpenAlexW1936590046

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Registered trials

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