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ArticleeLife2017

A new role for zinc in the brain.

Brendan B McAllister, Richard H Dyck

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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 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
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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

11 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The Astrocytic Zinc Transporter ZIP12 Is a Synaptic Protein That Contributes to Synaptic Zinc Levels in the Mouse Auditory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. Cortical Zinc Signaling Is Necessary for Changes in Mouse Pupil Diameter That Are Evoked by Background Sounds with Different Contrasts.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  4. Caged ZnACS chemical neuroscience · 2024
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  9. Neuromodulatory Mechanisms Underlying Contrast Gain Control in Mouse Auditory Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Brendan B McAllisterDepartment of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.
Richard H DyckDepartment of Psychology, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3254-8332

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Certain neurons in the auditory cortex release zinc to influence how the brain processes sounds.

Indexed as

Auditory CortexZincAcoustic StimulationAuditory PerceptionHearingZincauditory cortexcortical gaininterneuronsmouseneuroscienceprincipal neuronssound processingzinc

Identifiers

PMID28985179
PMCPMC5630257

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