Neural Circuits Serve as Periscopes for NSCs.

Nannan Guo, Amar Sahay

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Article in Cell stem cell, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it

0cells of the map it votes in

5citing papers in PubMed

0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 43% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

A Single-Cell Perspective on Remapping Human Adult Neurogenesis and Its Clinical Implications.Biomolecules · 2026
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Emerging Therapeutic Strategies in Intracerebral Hemorrhage: Enhancing Neurogenesis and Functional Recovery.MedComm · 2025
Review
Can exercise benefits be harnessed with drugs? A new way to combat neurodegenerative diseases by boosting neurogenesis.Translational neurodegeneration · 2024
Review
Communication, Cross Talk, and Signal Integration in the Adult Hippocampal Neurogenic Niche.Neuron · 2020
Review
Effect of mGluR7 on proliferation of human embryonic neural stem cells.Medicine · 2019
Article

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

Comment on
Long-Range GABAergic Inputs Regulate Neural Stem Cell Quiescence and Control Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis.2017

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Nannan GuoCenter for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.

Amar SahayCenter for Regenerative Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; BROAD Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. Electronic address: asahay@mgh.harvard.edu.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute · USHarvard University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neural stem cells (NSCs) within the hippocampal niche integrate local cues, such as activity of inhibitory interneurons, into their homeostatic fate choices. Now in Cell Stem Cell, Bao et al. (2017) describe how these local interneurons relay signals from distal brain regions to govern NSC quiescence and activation.

Indexed as

NeurogenesisCell DivisionHippocampusInterneuronsNeural Stem Cells

Identifiers

PMID29100005

DOI10.1016/j.stem.2017.10.007

OpenAlexW2766579692

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