Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28534473›Full record

ArticleeLife2017

The cost of communication in the brain.

Brian A MacVicar, Leigh Wicki-Stordeur, Louis-Philippe Bernier

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 95% 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

1 citing paper in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Direct energy consumption by inhibitory GABAFrontiers in neuroscience · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brian A MacVicarDjavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-4596-4623
Leigh Wicki-StordeurDjavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3235-4108
Louis-Philippe BernierDjavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-5063-2338
Vancouver Coastal Health · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Imaging ATP in axons reveals that they rely on glucose from the blood and lactate produced by glial cells as sources of energy.

Indexed as

White MatterAdenosine TriphosphateAxonsBrainNeurogliaAdenosine TriphosphateATPaxonbrainimagingmetabolismmousemyelinneuroscience

Identifiers

PMID28534473
PMCPMC5441864
OpenAlexW2617319987

What OpenQuestion holds

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.