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ReviewBrain sciences2018

History of Glial Cell Line-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) and Its Use for Spinal Cord Injury Repair.

Melissa J Walker, Xiao-Ming Xu

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Review in Brain sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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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

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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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.

Melissa J WalkerMedical Neuroscience Graduate Program, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 47450, USA. melissaw@ucla.edu.
Xiao-Ming XuSpinal Cord and Brain Injury Research, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 47450, USA. xu26@iupui.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Following an initial mechanical insult, traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) induces a secondary wave of injury, resulting in a toxic lesion environment inhibitory to axonal regeneration. This review focuses on the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) and its application, in combination with other factors and cell transplantations, for repairing the injured spinal cord. As studies of recent decades strongly suggest that combinational treatment approaches hold the greatest therapeutic potential for the central nervous system (CNS) trauma, future directions of combinational therapies will also be discussed.

Indexed as

astrogliosisaxonal regenerationcombinational therapiescRETGFRα-1glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF)neuroprotectionneurotraumaSchwann cellsspinal cord injury

Identifiers

PMID29899247
PMCPMC6025482

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