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ArticleeLife2024

Synchronizing beta cells in the pancreas.

Bradford E Peercy, David J Hodson

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Article in eLife, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
4citing 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

4 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Single-cell resolution uncovers neighboring cell subtypes that share steroidogenic capacity during fetal testis development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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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.

Bradford E PeercyDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), Baltimore, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8597-2508
David J HodsonOxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism (OCDEM), NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8641-8568

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The secretion of insulin from the pancreas relies on both gap junctions and subpopulations of beta cells with specific intrinsic properties.

Indexed as

Insulin-Secreting CellsPancreasGap JunctionsInsulinInsulinbeta-cellbeta-cell oscillationscomputational biologycoordinated oscillationsheterogeneityinsulin releaseisletmousenetwork theoryphysics of living systemssystems biology

Identifiers

PMID38270512
PMCPMC10810605

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