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ReviewInternational journal of molecular sciences2024

Role of the Alpha-B-Crystallin Protein in Cardiomyopathic Disease.

Andres Thorkelsson, Michael T Chin

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Review in International journal of molecular sciences, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

12 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The R120G knock-in mutation in αB-crystallin is insufficient to induce cardiomyopathy in mice.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2026
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  8. Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy-Associated CRYABInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  12. Current Research for Heart Disease Biology and Therapeutics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andres ThorkelssonTufts University School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA.
Michael T ChinTufts University School of Medicine, Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3065-8498
Tufts University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alpha-B-crystallin, a member of the small heat shock family of proteins, has been implicated in a variety of cardiomyopathies and in normal cardiac homeostasis. It is known to function as a molecular chaperone, particularly for desmin, but also interacts with a wide variety of additional proteins. The molecular chaperone function is also enhanced by signal-dependent phosphorylation at specific residues under stress conditions. Naturally occurring mutations in

Indexed as

CardiomyopathiesCardiomyopathy, RestrictiveDesminHumansMolecular ChaperonesMutationDesminMolecular Chaperonesalpha-B-crystallincalcineurincryabdesminopathydilated cardiomyopathyhypertrophic cardiomyopathymolecular chaperoneNFATrestrictive cardiomyopathy

Identifiers

PMID38474073
PMCPMC10932246
OpenAlexW4392294288

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