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ArticleAutophagy2019

A comparative map of macroautophagy and mitophagy in the vertebrate eye.

Thomas G McWilliams, Alan R Prescott, Beatriz Villarejo-Zori, Graeme Ball, Patricia Boya, Ian G Ganley

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Article in Autophagy, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
51citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
7.0field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

51 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 83 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 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Thomas G McWilliamsa MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, Sir James Black Centre School of Life Sciences , University of Dundee , Dundee , UK.
Alan R Prescottc Dundee Imaging Facility, School of Life Sciences , University of Dundee , Dundee , UK.ORCID 0000-0002-0747-7317
Beatriz Villarejo-Zorid Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology , Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC , Madrid , Spain.
Graeme Ballc Dundee Imaging Facility, School of Life Sciences , University of Dundee , Dundee , UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6526-2306
Patricia Boyad Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology , Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas, CSIC , Madrid , Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3045-951X
Ian G Ganleya MRC Protein Phosphorylation and Ubiquitylation Unit, Sir James Black Centre School of Life Sciences , University of Dundee , Dundee , UK.
University of Dundee · GBCentro de Investigaciones Biológicas Margarita Salas · ESUniversity of Helsinki · FI

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_00018/2Medical Research Council MC_UU_12016/4Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 097945/B/11/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Photoreception is pivotal to our experience and perception of the natural world; hence the eye is of prime importance for most vertebrate animals to sense light. Central to visual health is mitochondrial homeostasis, and the selective autophagic turnover of mitochondria (mitophagy) is predicted to play a key role here. Despite studies that link aberrant mitophagy to ocular dysfunction, little is known about the prevalence of basal mitophagy, or its relationship to general autophagy, in the visual system. In this study, we utilize the

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AnimalsAutophagosomesCell DifferentiationCiliary BodyCorneaEyeHomeostasisLens, CrystallineLysosomesMacroautophagyMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMitochondriaMitophagyOptic NervePhotoreceptor Cells, VertebrateAutophagyciliary bodycorneaeyehyaloidlensmitochondriamitophagy-QCretina

Identifiers

PMID30786807
PMCPMC6613837
OpenAlexW2916127817

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Registered trials

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