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ArticleFrontiers in physiology2023

Non-chemical signalling between mitochondria.

Rhys R Mould, Ifigeneia Kalampouka, E Louise Thomas, Geoffrey W Guy, Alistair V W Nunn, Jimmy D Bell

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Article in Frontiers in physiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 9 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

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rhys R MouldResearch Centre for Optimal Health, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
Ifigeneia KalampoukaResearch Centre for Optimal Health, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
E Louise ThomasResearch Centre for Optimal Health, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
Geoffrey W GuyThe Guy Foundation, Dorset, United Kingdom.
Alistair V W NunnResearch Centre for Optimal Health, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
Jimmy D BellResearch Centre for Optimal Health, School of Life Sciences, University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
University of Westminster · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A wide variety of studies have reported some form of non-chemical or non-aqueous communication between physically isolated organisms, eliciting changes in cellular proliferation, morphology, and/or metabolism. The sources and mechanisms of such signalling pathways are still unknown, but have been postulated to involve vibration, volatile transmission, or light through the phenomenon of ultraweak photon emission. Here, we report non-chemical communication between isolated mitochondria from MCF7 (cancer) and MCF10A (non-cancer) cell lines. We found that mitochondria in one cuvette stressed by an electron transport chain inhibitor, antimycin, alters the respiration of mitochondria in an adjacent, but chemically and physically separate cuvette, significantly decreasing the rate of oxygen consumption compared to a control (

Indexed as

biophotonbystander effectmetabolic photon emissionnon-chemical signallingradicalsultraweak luminescenceultraweak photon emission

Identifiers

PMID37811497
PMCPMC10560087
OpenAlexW4386957427

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