Evidence map›Paper›PMID 29759978›Full record

ReviewDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2018

The developmental origin of brain tumours: a cellular and molecular framework.

Roberta Azzarelli, Benjamin D Simons, Anna Philpott

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Review in Development (Cambridge, England), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 72 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
72citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
9.5field-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

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

72 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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12 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Roberta AzzarelliDepartment of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8160-7538
Benjamin D SimonsWellcome Trust Centre for Stem Cell Research, University of Cambridge, Tennis Court Road, Cambridge CB2 1QR, UK.
Anna PhilpottDepartment of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Hutchison/MRC Research Centre, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge CB2 0XZ, UK ap113@cam.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0003-3789-2463
Wellcome/MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_12009Medical Research Council MR/K018329/1Medical Research Council MR/L021129/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 098357/Z/12/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The development of the nervous system relies on the coordinated regulation of stem cell self-renewal and differentiation. The discovery that brain tumours contain a subpopulation of cells with stem/progenitor characteristics that are capable of sustaining tumour growth has emphasized the importance of understanding the cellular dynamics and the molecular pathways regulating neural stem cell behaviour. By focusing on recent work on glioma and medulloblastoma, we review how lineage tracing contributed to dissecting the embryonic origin of brain tumours and how lineage-specific mechanisms that regulate stem cell behaviour in the embryo may be subverted in cancer to achieve uncontrolled proliferation and suppression of differentiation.

Indexed as

BrainBrain NeoplasmsCell DifferentiationCell ProliferationCell Self RenewalCell Transformation, NeoplasticGliomaHumansMedulloblastomaNeoplastic Stem CellsNeural Stem CellsSignal Transduction

Identifiers

PMID29759978
PMCPMC6001369
OpenAlexW2802505360

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