Everything about BPS

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: BPSA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2024Influential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: A paixão segundo G.H.The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Measures of adult pain: Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), Numeric Rating Scale for Pain (NRS Pain), McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), Short‐Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF‐MPQ), Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS), Short Form‐36 Bodily Pain Scale (SF‐36 BPS), and Measure of Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP)Cited 3,604 times
5. Go sideways: Brockton, MassachusettsA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: APSA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Measures of adult pain: Visual Analog Scale for Pain (VAS Pain), Numeric Rating Scale for Pain (NRS Pain), McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ), Short‐Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF‐MPQ), Chronic Pain Grade Scale (CPGS), Short Form‐36 Bodily Pain Scale (SF‐36 BPS), and Measure of Intermittent and Constant Osteoarthritis Pain (ICOAP)

  Gillian A. Hawker, Samra Mian, Tetyana Kendzerska · 2011 · Arthritis Care & Research · 3,604 citations

• The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2018: updates and expansion to encompass the new guide to IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY

  Simon D Harding, Joanna L Sharman, Elena Faccenda · 2017 · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,613 citations

• Type IIB superstrings, BPS monopoles, and three-dimensional gauge dynamics

  Amihay Hanany, Edward Witten · 1997 · Nuclear Physics B · 1,045 citations

• The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2016: towards curated quantitative interactions between 1300 protein targets and 6000 ligands

  Christopher Southan, Joanna L. Sharman, Helen E. Benson · 2015 · Nucleic Acids Research · 1,030 citations

• The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY: an expert-driven knowledgebase of drug targets and their ligands

  Adam J. Pawson, Joanna L. Sharman, Helen E. Benson · 2013 · Nucleic Acids Research · 832 citations

• Bubbling AdS space and 1/2 BPS geometries

  Hai Lin, Oleg Lunin, Juan Maldacena · 2004 · Journal of High Energy Physics · 700 citations

• mTORC1-Mediated Cell Proliferation, But Not Cell Growth, Controlled by the 4E-BPs

  Ryan J. O. Dowling, Ivan Topisirovic, Tommy Alain · 2010 · Science · 651 citations

• Bisphenol A and other bisphenol analogues including BPS and BPF in surface water samples from Japan, China, Korea and India

  Eriko Yamazaki, Nobuyoshi Yamashita, Sachi Taniyasu · 2015 · Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety · 593 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• The IUPHAR/BPS Guide to PHARMACOLOGY in 2024

  Simon D Harding, Jane F Armstrong, Elena Faccenda · 2023 · Nucleic Acids Research · 227 citations

• Effects of BPA, BPS, and BPF on Oxidative Stress and Antioxidant Enzyme Expression in Bovine Oocytes and Spermatozoa

  Mimi Nguyen, Reem Sabry, Ola S. Davis · 2022 · Genes · 71 citations

• Bisphenol A replacement chemicals, BPF and BPS, induce protumorigenic changes in human mammary gland organoid morphology and proteome

  Juliane Winkler, Pengyuan Liu, Kiet Phong · 2022 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 68 citations

• Low-dose BPA and its substitute BPS promote ovarian cancer cell stemness via a non-canonical PINK1/p53 mitophagic signaling

  Xiaoyu Yuan, Kelie Chen, Fang Zheng · 2023 · Journal of Hazardous Materials · 64 citations

• A state-of-the-art review on interactive mechanisms and multi-scale application of biopolymers (BPs) in geo-improvement and vegetation growth

  Mahyar Arabani, Mohammad Mahdi Shalchian, Abolfazl Baghbani · 2024 · Journal of Environmental Management · 57 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• A paixão segundo G.H.Clarice Lispector · 1964
• Sīrat Rasūl AllāhIbn Hishām, ʻAbd al-Malik · 1955
• The power broker: Robert Moses and the fall of New YorkRobert A. Caro · 1974
• The bezels of wisdomIbn al-Arabi · 1966
• IslamKaren Armstrong · 2000
• The Story of the Qur'anIngrid Mattson · 2007
• MilestonesSayyid Quṭb · 1978
• Malcolm XMalcolm X, Archie Epps · 1989

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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