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ArticleJournal of cell communication and signaling2016

Conversation game: talking bacteria.

Sarangam Majumdar, Subhoshmita Mondal

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Article in Journal of cell communication and signaling, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Cross- species communication in bacterial world.Journal of cell communication and signaling · 2017
    Review
  4. Quorum sensing: a quantum perspective.Journal of cell communication and signaling · 2016
    Article
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.

Sarangam MajumdarDepartment of Mathematics, Universitat Hamburg, Bundesstrae, 55 20146, Hamburg, Germany. majumdarsarangam@yahoo.in.
Subhoshmita MondalDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 700032, India.
Jadavpur University · INUniversität Hamburg · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The story of autonomous unicellular organisms, bacteria with unimaginable computational and evolutionary capabilities along with collective behavior has been running since the first six decades of the twentieth Century. However, do not consider them to be small and simple, because they possess the generic term quorum sensing adopted to describe the cell communication process which co-ordinate gene expression, when the population has reached a high cell density. Bacteria release diffusible signal molecules known as autoinducers or quorum sensing molecules. In recent research, the direction for activating or deactivating nature of a wave of gene expression is predicted experimentally which control bacterial populations subject to a diffusing autoinducer signal. On the other hand, it has been observed that the accumulation of the quorum sensing molecules leads to a negative diffusion coefficient in the solution of governing differential equation.

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AutoinducersHigh cell densityQuorum sensingWave solution

Identifiers

PMID27278085
PMCPMC5143317
OpenAlexW2410935866

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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