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ReviewFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2018

Revisiting Netrin-1: One Who Guides (Axons).

Nicholas P Boyer, Stephanie L Gupton

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Review in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
119citing papers in PubMed
7.2field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

119 citing papers in PubMed, 185 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Expression of Netrin-1 in the developing mouse heart.Gene expression patterns : GEP · 2025
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  13. Junctional adhesion molecule-C: A multifunctional mediator of cell adhesion.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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  14. Adenylyl Cyclases as Therapeutic Targets in Neuroregeneration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  18. Increased Netrin downstream of overactive Hedgehog signaling disrupts optic fissure formation.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2025
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59 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nicholas P BoyerNeurobiology Curriculum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Stephanie L GuptonDepartment of Cell Biology and Physiology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

TRIM9 coordinates membrane trafficking and cytoskeletal dynamicsR01GM108970 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI GUPTON, STEPHANIE · 2014 to 2018
$1.6M
TRIM67 regulates growth cone filopodia during netrin-dependent axon guidanceF31NS096823 · NINDS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI BOYER, NICHOLAS · 2016 to 2018
$98k
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM108970NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS096823
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proper patterning of the nervous system requires that developing axons find appropriate postsynaptic partners; this entails microns to meters of extension through an extracellular milieu exhibiting a wide range of mechanical and chemical properties. Thus, the elaborate networks of fiber tracts and non-fasciculated axons evident in mature organisms are formed via complex pathfinding. The macroscopic structures of axon projections are highly stereotyped across members of the same species, indicating precise mechanisms guide their formation. The developing axon exhibits directionally biased growth toward or away from external guidance cues. One of the most studied guidance cues is netrin-1, however, its presentation

Indexed as

axon guidancechemotaxisDCCgrowth conehaptotaxisnetrin-1UNC5

Identifiers

PMID30108487
PMCPMC6080411
OpenAlexW2886729698

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