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ArticleeLife2018

Marking the differences in motoneurons.

Simon A Sharples, Patrick J Whelan

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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 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Simon A SharplesHotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-2316-1504
Patrick J WhelanHotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1234-5415

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A subgroup of the neurons that control muscles becomes less excitable shortly before the symptoms of ALS develop.

Indexed as

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisMotor NeuronsAnimalsDenervationDisease Models, AnimalMiceMusclesAmyotrophic lateral sclerosiselectrophysiologyfiring propertiesin vivo intracellular recordingsmotoneuronmotor neuronmouseneuroscience

Identifiers

PMID29701592
PMCPMC5922969

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