Everything about PAP

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: PAPA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: CVM-Cervix: A hybrid cervical Pap-smear image classification framework using CNN, visual transformer and multilayer perceptronInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The pap testThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Use of avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex (ABC) in immunoperoxidase techniques: a comparison between ABC and unlabeled antibody (PAP) procedures.Cited 10,542 times
5. Go sideways: ACPA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: PFLA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Use of avidin-biotin-peroxidase complex (ABC) in immunoperoxidase techniques: a comparison between ABC and unlabeled antibody (PAP) procedures.

  S M Hsu, L Raine, H Fanger · 1981 · Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry · 10,542 citations

• Evidence for a SAL1-PAP Chloroplast Retrograde Pathway That Functions in Drought and High Light Signaling in Arabidopsis

  Gonzalo M. Estavillo, Peter A. Crisp, Wannarat Pornsiriwong · 2011 · The Plant Cell · 510 citations

• Meta-analysis of Pap Test Accuracy

  Michael T. Fahey, Les Irwig, Petra Macaskill · 1995 · American Journal of Epidemiology · 464 citations

• Light and the E3 ubiquitin ligase COP1/SPA control the protein stability of the MYB transcription factors PAP1 and PAP2 involved in anthocyanin accumulation in Arabidopsis

  Alexander Maier, Andrea Schrader, Leonie Kokkelink · 2013 · The Plant Journal · 400 citations

• A modified population analysis profile (PAP) method to detect hetero-resistance to vancomycin in Staphylococcus aureus in a UK hospital

  M. Wootton · 2001 · Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy · 357 citations

• The Pap test and Bethesda 2014

  Ritu Nayar, David C. Wilbur · 2015 · Cancer Cytopathology · 295 citations

• Magnetostructural Correlations in .mu.2-1,1-N3 Bridged, Dinuclear Copper(II) Complexes. 1. Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Coupling Associated with the Azide Bridge. X-ray Crystal Structures of [Cu2(DMPTD)(.mu.2-N3)(.mu.2-Cl)Cl2].cntdot.CH3CN, [Cu2(DMPTD)(.mu.2-N3)2(N3)2], [Cu2(DIP)(.mu.2-N3)(.mu.2-Cl)Cl2].cntdot.0.5CH3OH, [Cu2(PAP46Me-H)(.mu.2-N3)(N3)2].cntdot.0.33H2O, [Cu2(PAP)(.mu.2-N3)Cl3].cntdot.CH2Cl2, [Cu2(PAP)(.mu.2-N3)(N3)(NO3)(CH3OH)](NO3).cntdot.CH3OH, [Cu2(PPD3Me)(.mu.2-N3)Cl3(H2O)1.5], and [Cu2(PPD)(.mu.2-N3)(NO3)3(H2O)1.6]

  Santokh S. Tandon, Laurence K. Thompson, Mike E. Manuel · 1994 · Inorganic Chemistry · 293 citations

• Demographic predictors of mammography and Pap smear screening in US women.

  E E Calle, W D Flanders, M J Thun · 1993 · American Journal of Public Health · 292 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• CVM-Cervix: A hybrid cervical Pap-smear image classification framework using CNN, visual transformer and multilayer perceptron

  Wanli Liu, Chen Li, Ning Xu · 2022 · Pattern Recognition · 191 citations

• Exemplar pyramid deep feature extraction based cervical cancer image classification model using pap-smear images

  Orhan Yaman, Turker Tuncer · 2022 · Biomedical Signal Processing and Control · 134 citations

• Wire arc metal additive manufacturing using pulsed arc plasma (PAP-WAAM) for effective heat management

  Xiaoming Duan, Qi Li, Weiran Xie · 2023 · Journal of Materials Processing Technology · 99 citations

• Cervical Cancer Classification From Pap Smear Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network Models

  Sher Lyn Tan, Ganeshsree Selvachandran, Weiping Ding · 2023 · Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences · 87 citations

• Comparison of deep transfer learning models for classification of cervical cancer from pap smear images

  Harmanpreet Kaur, Reecha Sharma, Jagroop Kaur · 2025 · Scientific Reports · 59 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The pap testRichard M. DeMay · 2005
• 📕New devices aim at improving pap test accuracyUnited States. Food and Drug Administration · 1997
• 📕Manual for Cervical Cancer Screening and ControlMargherita Branca, Adhemar Longatto Filho · 2013
• 📕The Pap testNational Cancer Institute (U.S.) · 1996
• 📕Cervical Screening Programme: Review 1998Cervical Screening Programme · 1998
• THE CERVICAL SMEAR TESTANNE SZAREWSKI · 1996
• 📕Pap SmearT. Tanaka, Tadashi Sugishita · 1998
• 📕A feminist approach to Pap testsRobin Barnett · 1986

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

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