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ArticleeLife2018

The synaptic ribbon is critical for sound encoding at high rates and with temporal precision.

Philippe Jean, David Lopez de la Morena, Susann Michanski, Lina María Jaime Tobón, Rituparna Chakrabarti, Maria Magdalena Picher, Jakob Neef, SangYong Jung, Mehmet Gültas, Stephan Maxeiner and 5 more

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Article in eLife, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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75citing papers in PubMed
8.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Philippe Jean *Institute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5325-1370
David Lopez de la Morena *Institute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0835-2732
Susann Michanski *Collaborative Research Center, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5893-1981
Lina María Jaime Tobón *Institute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6752-7750
Rituparna ChakrabartiCollaborative Research Center, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Maria Magdalena PicherInstitute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0722-3883
Jakob NeefInstitute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4757-9385
SangYong JungInstitute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Mehmet GültasDepartment of Breeding Informatics, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Stephan MaxeinerInstitute for Anatomy and Cell Biology, University of the Saarland, Homburg, Germany.
Andreas NeefBernstein Group Biophysics of Neural Computation, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4445-7478
Carolin WichmannCollaborative Research Center, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8868-8716
Nicola StrenzkeCollaborative Research Center, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Chad GrabnerInstitute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Tobias MoserInstitute for Auditory Neuroscience and InnerEarLab, University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7145-0533
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen · DEMax Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization · DESaarland University · DEUniversity of Göttingen · DE

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Collaborative Research Center 889, projects A2, A6, and A7Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Tobias Moser Leibniz program MO 896/51Max-Planck-Gesellschaft Max-Planck-Fellowship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We studied the role of the synaptic ribbon for sound encoding at the synapses between inner hair cells (IHCs) and spiral ganglion neurons (SGNs) in mice lacking RIBEYE (RBE

Indexed as

HearingAcoustic StimulationAlcohol OxidoreductasesAnimalsCo-Repressor ProteinsDNA-Binding ProteinsHair Cells, Auditory, InnerMiceMice, KnockoutMicroscopy, ElectronMicroscopy, FluorescencePhosphoproteinsSpiral GanglionSynapsesAlcohol OxidoreductasesCo-Repressor ProteinsCtbp2 protein, mouseDNA-Binding ProteinsPhosphoproteinsactive zoneCa2+-channelscell biologyexocytosishearingmouseneuroscienceribbon synapse

Identifiers

PMID29328020
PMCPMC5794258
OpenAlexW2783050637

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