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ArticleEMBO molecular medicine2017

Loss of Mpdz impairs ependymal cell integrity leading to perinatal-onset hydrocephalus in mice.

Anja Feldner, M Gordian Adam, Fabian Tetzlaff, Iris Moll, Dorde Komljenovic, Felix Sahm, Tobias Bäuerle, Hiroshi Ishikawa, Horst Schroten, Thomas Korff and 4 more

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Article in EMBO molecular medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
50citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

50 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Endoscopic third ventriculostomy for diencephalosynapsis-related hydrocephalus in MPDZ gene syndrome: a case report and review of the literature.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2026
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  7. Junctional adhesion molecule-C: A multifunctional mediator of cell adhesion.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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  9. Genes · 2025
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  16. Paediatric hydrocephalus.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2024
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  17. Loss of symmetric cell division of apical neural progenitors drivesmedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2024
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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

14 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Anja FeldnerVascular Signaling and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
M Gordian AdamVascular Signaling and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Fabian TetzlaffVascular Signaling and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Iris MollVascular Signaling and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Dorde KomljenovicDivision of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Felix SahmDepartment of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Tobias BäuerleDivision of Medical Physics in Radiology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Hiroshi IshikawaDepartment of NDU Life Sciences, School of Life Dentistry, Nippon Dental University, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo, Japan.
Horst SchrotenPediatric Infectious Diseases, University Children's Hospital Mannheim Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany.
Thomas KorffDepartment of Cardiovascular Research, Institute of Physiology and Pathophysiology, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany.
Ilse HofmannVascular Oncology and Metastasis, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
Hartwig WolburgDepartment of Pathology and Neuropathology, University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany.
Andreas von DeimlingDepartment of Neuropathology, Institute of Pathology, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Andreas FischerVascular Signaling and Cancer, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany a.fischer@dkfz.de.ORCID 0000-0002-4889-0909
German Cancer Research Center · DEHeidelberg University · DENippon Dental University · JPUniversity of Tübingen · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hydrocephalus is a common congenital anomaly.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalAnimalsAstrocytesCarrier ProteinsCells, CulturedEpendymaEpithelial CellsGene DeletionGene Knockdown TechniquesHumansHydrocephalusMembrane ProteinsMiceCarrier ProteinsMembrane ProteinsMpdz protein, mouseaqueductal stenosiscerebrospinal fluidependymal cellshydrocephalustight junction

Identifiers

PMID28500065
PMCPMC5494508
OpenAlexW2612010903

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