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

Cerberus-Nodal-Lefty-Pitx signaling cascade controls left

Guang Li, Xian Liu, Chaofan Xing, Huayang Zhang, Sebastian M Shimeld, Yiquan Wang

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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 27 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Enigmatic Nodal and Lefty gene repertoire discrepancy: Latent evolutionary history revealed by vertebrate-wide phylogeny.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025
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  5. AmphioxusMarine life science & technology · 2023
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  7. Three amphioxus reference genomes reveal gene and chromosome evolution of chordates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  10. Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  14. Pitx genes in development and disease.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021
    Review
  15. Chronic Exposure to Cadmium Induces Differential Methylation in Mice Spermatozoa.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2021
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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

6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Guang LiState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China.
Xian LiuState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China.
Chaofan XingState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China.
Huayang ZhangState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China.
Sebastian M ShimeldDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, United Kingdom wangyq@xmu.edu.cn sebastian.shimeld@zoo.ox.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-0195-7536
Yiquan WangState Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian 361102, China; wangyq@xmu.edu.cn sebastian.shimeld@zoo.ox.ac.uk.
Xiamen University · CNUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many bilaterally symmetrical animals develop genetically programmed left-right asymmetries. In vertebrates, this process is under the control of Nodal signaling, which is restricted to the left side by

Indexed as

Body PatterningGene Regulatory NetworksAnimalsGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHomeodomain ProteinsLanceletsNodal ProteinNuclear ProteinsPaired Box Transcription FactorsSignal TransductionHomeodomain ProteinsNodal ProteinNuclear ProteinsPaired Box Transcription Factorsamphioxusembryonic developmentleft–right asymmetryNodalTALEN

Identifiers

PMID28320954
PMCPMC5389317
OpenAlexW2599460719

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