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ArticleeLife2020

Modelling the emergence of whisker barrels.

Sebastian S James, Leah A Krubitzer, Stuart P Wilson

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Article in eLife, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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

2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sebastian S JamesDepartment of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0003-0208-0588
Leah A KrubitzerCenter for Neuroscience, The University of California, Davis, Davis, United States.
Stuart P WilsonDepartment of Psychology, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8125-5133
University of Sheffield · GBUniversity of California, Davis · US

Funding

James S. McDonnell Foundation 220020516
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain development relies on an interplay between genetic specification and self-organization. Striking examples of this relationship can be found in the somatosensory brainstem, thalamus, and cortex of rats and mice, where the arrangement of the facial whiskers is preserved in the arrangement of cell aggregates to form precise somatotopic maps. We show in simulation how realistic whisker maps can self-organize, by assuming that information is exchanged between adjacent cells only, under the guidance of gene expression gradients. The resulting model provides a simple account of how patterns of gene expression can constrain spontaneous pattern formation to faithfully reproduce functional maps in subsequent brain structures.

Indexed as

Models, NeurologicalSomatosensory CortexThalamusVibrissaeAnimalsMiceRatsaxon guidancebarrel cortexcomputational biologydevelopmental biologyratself-organizationsomatotopic mapsystems biology

Identifiers

PMID32988453
PMCPMC7524548
OpenAlexW3090578266

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Registered trials

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