Evidence map›Paper›PMID 25504540›Full record

ReviewASN neuro2014

Connecting the retina to the brain.

Lynda Erskine, Eloisa Herrera

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Review in ASN neuro, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 113 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
113citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

113 citing papers in PubMed, 197 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Absence of local retinotopy in the mouse optic tract.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2026
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  15. Retinal vascular dysfunction in the MthfrAlzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2025
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  16. Long-term Dietary Fat Intervention Affects Retinal Health in APOE Mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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53 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.

Lynda ErskineSchool of Medical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK l.erskine@abdn.ac.uk.
Eloisa HerreraInstituto de Neurosciencias de Alicante, CSIC-UMH, San Juan de Alicante, Spain.
Instituto de Neurociencias · ESUniversity of Aberdeen · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J00815X/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The visual system is beautifully crafted to transmit information of the external world to visual processing and cognitive centers in the brain. For visual information to be relayed to the brain, a series of axon pathfinding events must take place to ensure that the axons of retinal ganglion cells, the only neuronal cell type in the retina that sends axons out of the retina, find their way out of the eye to connect with targets in the brain. In the past few decades, the power of molecular and genetic tools, including the generation of genetically manipulated mouse lines, have multiplied our knowledge about the molecular mechanisms involved in the sculpting of the visual system. Here, we review major advances in our understanding of the mechanisms controlling the differentiation of RGCs, guidance of their axons from the retina to the primary visual centers, and the refinement processes essential for the establishment of topographic maps and eye-specific axon segregation. Human disorders, such as albinism and achiasmia, that impair RGC axon growth and guidance and, thus, the establishment of a fully functioning visual system will also be discussed.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainHumansRetinaVisual Pathwaysaxon guidancegrowth coneoptic chiasmretinal ganglion celltopographic mappingvisual system

Identifiers

PMID25504540
PMCPMC4720220
OpenAlexW2119226063

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