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ArticleJournal of neurophysiology2019

Central mesencephalic reticular formation control of the near response: lens accommodation circuits.

Paul J May, Isabelle Billig, Paul D Gamlin, Julie Quinet

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Article in Journal of neurophysiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Neural Control of Vergence and Ocular Accommodation.Annual review of vision science · 2025
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  7. Manipulating expectancies in optometry practice: Ocular accommodation and stereoacuity are sensitive to placebo and nocebo effects.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2022
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  9. A Novel Tectal/Pretectal Population of Premotor Lens Accommodation Neurons.Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2022
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  13. Neural control of rapid binocular eye movements: Saccade-vergence burst neurons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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  14. Is Primate Lens Accommodation Unilaterally or Bilaterally Controlled?Investigative ophthalmology & visual science · 2020
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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

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Paul J MayDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomical Sciences, Department of Ophthalmology, and Department of Neurology, University of Mississippi Medical Center , Jackson, Mississippi.
Isabelle BilligSystems Neuroscience Center, University of Pittsburgh , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Paul D GamlinDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham, Alabama.
Julie QuinetDepartment of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham , Birmingham, Alabama.
University of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of Mississippi Medical Center · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Visual Phenotyping CoreP30EY003039 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI Paul Douglas Gamlin · 1985 to 2026
$16.9M
ResourceP40OD010996 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI STRICK, PETER · 2012 to 2024
$11.0M
MIDBRAIN CIRCUITRY FOR NEURONAL CONTROL OF GAZER01EY014263 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER · PI GAMLIN, PAUL DOUGLAS, MAY, PAUL J · 2003 to 2018
$5.2M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY003039NEI NIH HHS R01 EY014263NIH HHS P40 OD010996
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To view a nearby target, the three components of the near response are brought into play:

Indexed as

Accommodation, OcularAnimalsDendritesEfferent PathwaysMacaca fascicularisMotor NeuronsNeuroanatomical Tract-Tracing TechniquesReticular Formationeye movementmidbrainoculomotorsaccadevergenceviral tracer

Identifiers

PMID30840529
PMCPMC6589714
OpenAlexW2921697760

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Registered trials

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