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ReviewBritish journal of pharmacology2018

Using automated patch clamp electrophysiology platforms in pain-related ion channel research: insights from industry and academia.

Damian C Bell, Mark L Dallas

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Review in British journal of pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% 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

21 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Building structure activity relationships to avoid toxicity due to unwanted central nervous system ion channel activity.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
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  8. Advances in Pain Medicine: a Review of New Technologies.Current pain and headache reports · 2022
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  14. Pharmacological Approaches to Studying Potassium Channels.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 2021
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  15. Therapeutic Antibodies Targeting Potassium Ion Channels.Handbook of experimental pharmacology · 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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Damian C BellIONTAS, Cambridge, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2881-7085
Mark L DallasSchool of Pharmacy, University of Reading, Reading, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5190-0522
International Union for Conservation of Nature (United Kingdom) · GBUniversity of Reading · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Automated patch clamp (APC) technology was first developed at the turn of the millennium. The increased throughput it afforded promised a new paradigm in ion channel recordings, offering the potential to overcome the time-consuming, low-throughput bottleneck, arising from manual patch clamp investigations. This has relevance to the fast-paced development of novel therapies for chronic pain. This review highlights the advances in technology, using select examples that have facilitated APC usage in both industry and academia. It covers both first generation and the latest developments in second-generation platforms. In addition, it also provides an overview of the pain research field and how APC platforms have furthered our understanding of ion channel research and the development of pharmacological tools and therapeutics. APC platforms have much to offer to the ion channel research community, and this review highlights areas of best practice for both academia and industry. The impact of APC platforms and the prospects of ion channel research and improved therapeutics for chronic pain will be evaluated. LINKED ARTICLES: This article is part of a themed section on Recent Advances in Targeting Ion Channels to Treat Chronic Pain. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v175.12/issuetoc.

Indexed as

AutomationBiomedical ResearchElectrophysiological PhenomenaPatch-Clamp TechniquesAnimalsHumansIon ChannelsPainPain ManagementIon Channels

Identifiers

PMID28622411
PMCPMC5980593
OpenAlexW2625980788

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Registered trials

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