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ArticleCell metabolism2017

GDF15-From Biomarker to Allostatic Hormone.

Stephen O'Rahilly

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Article in Cell metabolism, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  16. Activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis by exogenous and endogenous GDF15.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  20. CXCL5-mediated recruitment of neutrophils into the peritoneal cavity ofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Stephen O'RahillyMRC Metabolic Diseases Unit and Metabolic Research Laboratories, Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 0QQ, UK. Electronic address: so104@medschl.cam.ac.uk.

Funding

Medical Research Council G0900554Medical Research Council MC_UU_12012/1Medical Research Council MC_UU_12012/5
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With the identification of its receptor in a highly specific region of the brain, interesting issues come to light regarding the normal physiological functions of GDF15, a secreted protein long identified as a biomarker of diverse disease states.

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AllostasisWeight LossAnimalsBiomarkersLigandsMicePrimatesBiomarkersLigands

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