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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2018

Multiple Lines of Evidence Indicate That Gliotransmission Does Not Occur under Physiological Conditions.

Todd A Fiacco, Ken D McCarthy

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers.

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106citing papers in PubMed
13.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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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

106 citing papers in PubMed, 192 citations in OpenAlex.

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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.

Todd A FiaccoDepartment of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, Center for Glial-Neuronal Interactions, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, California 92521, and kdmc@med.unc.edu todd.fiacco@ucr.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-1927-5349
Ken D McCarthyDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-7365 kdmc@med.unc.edu todd.fiacco@ucr.edu.
University of California, Riverside · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A major controversy persists within the field of glial biology concerning whether or not, under physiological conditions, neuronal activity leads to Ca

Indexed as

AnimalsAstrocytesCalcium SignalingHumansNeurogliaNeuronsSynaptic Transmissionastrocytecalciumd-serineglutamateGPCRIP3R

Identifiers

PMID29298904
PMCPMC5761435
OpenAlexW2782344173

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