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ReviewLipids2017

Lipid Droplets: Formation to Breakdown.

Alex Meyers, Taylor M Weiskittel, Paul Dalhaimer

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Review in Lipids, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
27citing papers in PubMed
3.6field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 67 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 1 country.

Alex MeyersDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, 426 Dougherty Engineering Building, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
Taylor M WeiskittelDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, 426 Dougherty Engineering Building, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
Paul DalhaimerDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, 426 Dougherty Engineering Building, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA. pdalhaim@utk.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2929-3372
Knoxville College · USUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

One of the most exciting areas of cell biology during the last decade has been the study of lipid droplets. Lipid droplets allow cells to store non-polar molecules such as neutral lipids in specific compartments where they are sequestered from the aqueous environment of the cell yet can be accessed through regulated mechanisms. These structures are highly conserved, appearing in organisms throughout the phylogenetic tree. Until somewhat recently, lipid droplets were widely regarded as inert, however progress in the field has continued to demonstrate their vast roles in a number of cellular processes in both mitotic and post-mitotic cells. No doubt the increase in the attention given to lipid droplet research is due to their central role in current pressing human diseases such as obesity, type-2 diabetes, and atherosclerosis. This review provides a mechanistic timeline from neutral lipid synthesis through lipid droplet formation and size augmentation to droplet breakdown.

Indexed as

AnimalsAtherosclerosisDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2HumansLipid DropletsLipid MetabolismLipidsObesityTriglyceridesLipidsTriglyceridesEndoplasmic reticulumLipid dropletSterol esterTriacylglycerolYeast

Identifiers

PMID28528432
OpenAlexW2615237354

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