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ReviewJournal of lipid research2016

A short history of inositol lipids.

Robin F Irvine

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In one paragraph

Review in Journal of lipid research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
23citing 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

23 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Distinct impact of PI(4)P flux on PI(4,5)PProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Genes · 2025
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  11. Role of Lysosomal Cholesterol in Regulating PI(4,5)PAdvances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023
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  14. The Inositol Phosphate System-A Coordinator of Metabolic Adaptability.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  18. The precursor of PI(3,4,5)PNature communications · 2020
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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

1 author.

Robin F IrvineDepartment of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PD, United Kingdom rfi20@cam.ac.uk.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The diverse family of inositol lipids is now known to be central to many aspects of cell biology. The route from the first discovery of inositol to our present day knowledge of inositol lipids spans more than 150 years and is long and complex. This is a brief account of some of the most important stages along that route.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansInositolPhosphatidylinositolsPhospholipidsType C PhospholipasesInositolPhosphatidylinositolsPhospholipidsType C Phospholipaseshistoryphosphatidylinositolphosphoinositidesphospholipases/Cphospholipidsphospholipids/phosphatidylinositolpolyphosphoinositol lipidsreceptors/hormone

Identifiers

PMID27623846
PMCPMC5087877

What Socratic holds

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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 Socratic graph.