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ReviewAnesthesiology2024

Systematized Serendipity: Fishing Expeditions for Anesthetic Drugs and Targets.

C Michael Crowder, Stuart A Forman

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Review in Anesthesiology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
field-weighted citation impact
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

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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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.

C Michael CrowderDepartment of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Department of Genome Sciences, Mitochondrial and Metabolism Center, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.ORCID 0000-0002-2562-4392
Stuart A FormanDepartment of Anesthesia Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Harvard Medical School, Boston Massachusetts.

Funding

Basic and Translational Research on General AnestheticsR35GM141951 · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · 2025 to 2025
$686k
DEFINING RAPTOR-MEDIATED MECHANISMS OF HYPOXIC INJURYR01NS128769 · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · 2025 to 2025
$659k
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141951NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS100350NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS109088NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS128769
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Most of science involves making observations, forming hypotheses, and testing those hypotheses, to form valid conclusions. However, a distinct, longstanding, and very productive scientific approach does not follow this paradigm; rather, it begins with a screen through a random collection of drugs or genetic variations for a particular effect or phenotype. Subsequently, the identity of the drug or gene is determined, and only then are hypotheses formed and the more standard scientific method employed. This alternative approach is called forward screening and includes methods such as genetic mutant screens, small molecule screens, metabolomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics. This review explains the rational for forward screening approaches and uses examples of screens for mutants with altered anesthetic sensitivities and for novel anesthetics to illustrate the methods and impact of the approach. Forward screening approaches are becoming even more powerful with advances in bioinformatics aided by artificial intelligence.

Indexed as

AnestheticsAnimalsHumansMetabolomicsProteomicsAnesthetics

Identifiers

PMID39240535
PMCPMC11461116

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