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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2020

Extremely Low Forces Induce Extreme Axon Growth.

Sara De Vincentiis, Alessandro Falconieri, Marco Mainardi, Valentina Cappello, Vincenzo Scribano, Ranieri Bizzarri, Barbara Storti, Luciana Dente, Mario Costa, Vittoria Raffa

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 74 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Sara De VincentiisDepartment of Biology, Università di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy.
Alessandro FalconieriDepartment of Biology, Università di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy.
Marco MainardiInstitute of Neuroscience, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Pisa 56124, Italy.
Valentina CappelloCenter for Nanotechnology Innovation (CNI), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Pisa 56127, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2385-8320
Vincenzo ScribanoDepartment of Biology, Università di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy.
Ranieri BizzarriNational Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology (NEST), Scuola Normale Superiore and Institute of Neuroscience (CNR), Pisa 56127, Italy.
Barbara StortiNational Enterprise for nanoScience and nanoTechnology (NEST), Scuola Normale Superiore and Institute of Neuroscience (CNR), Pisa 56127, Italy.
Luciana DenteDepartment of Biology, Università di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy.
Mario CostaInstitute of Neuroscience, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Pisa 56124, Italy.
Vittoria RaffaDepartment of Biology, Università di Pisa, Pisa 56127, Italy vittoria.raffa@unipi.it.ORCID 0000-0002-4289-9937
University of Pisa · ITScuola Normale Superiore · ITItalian Institute of Technology · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Stretch-growth has been defined as a process that extends axons via the application of mechanical forces. In the present article, we used a protocol based on magnetic nanoparticles (NPs) for labeling the entire axon tract of hippocampal neurons, and an external magnetic field gradient to generate a dragging force. We found that the application of forces below 10 pN induces growth at a rate of 0.66 ± 0.02 µm h

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AnimalsGrowth ConesHippocampusMagneticsMechanotransduction, CellularMetal NanoparticlesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLNeuronal Outgrowthaxon growthforcemechanotransduction

Identifiers

PMID32444384
PMCPMC7314409
OpenAlexW3026647752

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