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ArticleEMBO reports2015

The big, the bad and the ugly: Extreme animals as inspiration for biomedical research.

João Pedro de Magalhães

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Article in EMBO reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
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. Article
  2. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. A whale of a tale: whale cells evade the driving mechanism for hexavalent chromium-induced chromosome instability.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2024
    Article
  5. Review
  6. From humans to hydra: patterns of cancer across the tree of life.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2018
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Not just a cousin of the naked mole-rat: Damaraland mole-rats offer unique insights into biomedicine.Comparative biochemistry and physiology. Part B, Biochemistry & molecular biology
    Review
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

1 author.

João Pedro de MagalhãesIntegrative Genomics of Ageing Group, Institute of Integrative Biology University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research CouncilWellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Animal ExperimentationAnimals, ExoticBiomedical ResearchModels, AnimalAnimalsMole RatsWhales

Identifiers

PMID26041769
PMCPMC4515115

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