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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2017

DSCAM promotes axon fasciculation and growth in the developing optic pathway.

Freyja M Bruce, Samantha Brown, Jonathan N Smith, Peter G Fuerst, Lynda Erskine

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. Dual Leucine Zipper Kinase Regulates Dscam Expression through a Noncanonical Function of the Cytoplasmic Poly(A)-Binding Protein.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  20. Structure of cell-cell adhesion mediated by the Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Freyja M BruceSchool of Medicine, Medical Sciences, and Nutrition, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom.
Samantha BrownSchool of Medicine, Medical Sciences, and Nutrition, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom.
Jonathan N SmithSchool of Medicine, Medical Sciences, and Nutrition, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom.
Peter G FuerstDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844; fuerst@uidaho.edu l.erskine@abdn.ac.uk.
Lynda ErskineSchool of Medicine, Medical Sciences, and Nutrition, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, United Kingdom; fuerst@uidaho.edu l.erskine@abdn.ac.uk.
University of Aberdeen · GBUniversity of Idaho · US

Funding

Role of molecular recognition in retinal patterning and synaptic organizationR01EY020857 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO · PI FUERST, PETER GERARD · 2010 to 2014
$1.2M
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J00815X/1NEI NIH HHS R01 EY020857
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although many aspects of optic pathway development are beginning to be understood, the mechanisms promoting the growth of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons toward visual targets remain largely unknown. Down syndrome cell adhesion molecule (

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AnimalsAxon FasciculationAxonsCell Adhesion MoleculesChlorocebus aethiopsCOS CellsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGrowth ConesHEK293 CellsHumansIn Situ HybridizationMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMice, TransgenicMutationOptic ChiasmCell Adhesion MoleculesDscam protein, mouseaxon guidancedevelopmentgrowth coneoptic chiasmvisual system

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PMID28137836
PMCPMC5321013
OpenAlexW2579950653

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