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ArticleCell2019

Surface Sugars Get Cells in Shape.

Kamil Godula

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Article in Cell, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
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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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Biophysical modeling of membrane curvature generation and curvature sensing by the glycocalyx.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
    Article
  3. A Hierarchical Mechanotransduction System: From Macro to Micro.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
    Review
  4. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Kamil GodulaDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0358, USA. Electronic address: kgodula@ucsd.edu.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell membranes can adopt a variety of shapes and curvatures, yet our understanding of the factors involved remains limited. In this issue of Cell, Shurer et al. (2019) demonstrate that the glycocalyx can regulate cell shape from the outside in.

Indexed as

GlycocalyxSugarsCell MembraneCell ShapeSugars

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Registered trials

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Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.