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ArticleCell2017

GABA Signaling Stimulates β Cell Regeneration in Diabetic Mice.

Gordon C Weir, Susan Bonner-Weir

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Article in Cell, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

11 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Gamma-aminobutyric acid for delaying type 1 diabetes mellitus: an update.Annals of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism · 2024
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  2. The role of GABA in type 1 diabetes.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024
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  6. The Aging GABAergic System and Its Nutritional Support.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2021
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  11. Protective roles of hepatic GABA signaling in liver injury.International journal of physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gordon C WeirResearch Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA. Electronic address: gordon.weir@joslin.harvard.edu.
Susan Bonner-WeirResearch Division, Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Joslin Diabetes Center · US

Funding

SPECIAL ASSAY COREP30DK036836 · NIDDK · JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER · PI JEAN E. SCHAFFER · 1986 to 2026
$50.5M
Austrian Science Fund FWF P 25659NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK036836
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

GABA and the antimalarial drug artemether, which acts on GABAergic pathways, can drive pancreatic cells with an α-cell phenotype toward a β-cell-like phenotype. As reported in two papers (Ben-Othman et al. and Li et al.), these drugs can stimulate the production of sufficient numbers of new β-like cells to reverse severe diabetes in mice.

Indexed as

AnimalsDiabetes Mellitus, Experimentalgamma-Aminobutyric AcidInsulin-Secreting CellsMiceRegenerationSignal Transductiongamma-Aminobutyric Acid

Identifiers

PMID28086099
OpenAlexW2575182800

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Registered trials

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