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ArticleThe Journal of physiology2014

The lymphangion: a not so 'primitive' heart.

Dirk F van Helden

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Article in The Journal of physiology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing 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

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Harnessing the lymphatic system.Heart failure reviews · 2025
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  2. Lymphatic Imaging and Intervention in Congenital Heart Disease.Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions · 2024
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  6. Evidence of functional ryanodine receptors in rat mesenteric collecting lymphatic vessels.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Dirk F van HeldenCardiovascular and Neuroscience Research Network, School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy, Faculty of Health & Medicine and Hunter Medical Research Institute, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia dirk.vanhelden@newcastle.edu.au.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Muscle ContractionAnimalsCalcium Channels, L-TypeCalcium Channels, T-TypeLymphatic VesselsMaleCalcium Channels, L-TypeCalcium Channels, T-Type

Identifiers

PMID25512439
PMCPMC4270499

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