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ArticleeLife2016

Frazzled promotes growth cone attachment at the source of a Netrin gradient in the

Orkun Akin, S Lawrence Zipursky

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Article in eLife, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 45 papers.

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45citing papers in PubMed
5.7field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

45 citing papers in PubMed, 85 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Molecular mechanisms of proteoglycan-mediated semaphorin signaling in axon guidance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  15. Pioneer Axons Utilize aThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  16. Neural specification, targeting, and circuit formation during visual system assembly.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  20. Dorsal commissural axon guidance in the developing spinal cord.Current topics in developmental biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Orkun AkinDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States.
S Lawrence ZipurskyDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5630-7181
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · US

Funding

Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Axon guidance is proposed to act through a combination of long- and short-range attractive and repulsive cues. The ligand-receptor pair, Netrin (Net) and Frazzled (Fra) (DCC, Deleted in Colorectal Cancer, in vertebrates), is recognized as the prototypical effector of chemoattraction, with roles in both long- and short-range guidance. In the

Indexed as

AnimalsAxon GuidanceAxonsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsCell AdhesionChemotactic FactorsDrosophila melanogasterDrosophila ProteinsEyeGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGrowth ConesNetrin ReceptorsRepressor ProteinsSignal TransductionBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsChemotactic FactorsDrosophila Proteinsfra protein, Drosophilanet protein, DrosophilaNetrin ReceptorsRepressor Proteinsaxon guidancedevelopmental biologyD. melanogasterlive imagingneurosciencestem cellstwo-photon microscopy

Identifiers

PMID27743477
PMCPMC5108592
OpenAlexW2531128504

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