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ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2003

Neurobiology and cellular pathogenesis of glycolipid storage diseases.

Steven U Walkley

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Review in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2003. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. GM1 Gangliosidosis: Mechanisms and Management.The application of clinical genetics · 2021
    Review
  3. Gangliosides of the Vertebrate Nervous System.Journal of molecular biology · 2016
    Review
  4. Review
  5. Article
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  9. Clinical aspects of neuropathic lysosomal storage disorders.Journal of inherited metabolic disease · 2010
    Review
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  12. Pathogenic cascades in lysosomal disease-Why so complex?Journal of inherited metabolic disease · 2009
    Review
  13. Secondary lipid accumulation in lysosomal disease.Biochimica et biophysica acta · 2009
    Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Future perspectives for glycolipid research in medicine.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2003
    Review
  17. A historical perspective of the glycosphingolipids and sphingolipidoses.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2003
    Article
  18. Article
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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Steven U WalkleySidney Weisner Laboratory of Genetic Neurological Disease, Department of Neuroscience, Rose F. Kennedy Center for Research in Mental Retardation and Human Development, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. walkley@aecom.yu.edu
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Disorders of lysosomal metabolism often involve the accumulation of specific types of glycolipid, particularly gangliosides, because of either degradative failure or other currently unknown mechanisms. Although the precise role of gangliosides in cells remains enigmatic, the presence of specific abnormalities secondary to ganglioside accumulation in lysosomal diseases has suggested important biological functions. Chief among these is the growth of new dendrites on particular classes of mature neurons secondary to an increase in GM2 ganglioside. That GM2 has also been shown to be elevated in normal immature neurons coincident with dendritic sprouting provides a compelling argument that this ganglioside plays a role in dendritic initiation. This discovery has led to the search for other regulators of dendritic differentiation that may in some way be linked to the expression and/or function of GM2 ganglioside. Principal candidates that have emerged include tyrosine kinase receptors, small GTPases and calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II. Understanding the mechanism underlying ectopic dendritogenesis in lysosomal diseases can be expected to generate significant insight into the control of dendritic plasticity in normal brain. The detrimental aspects of ganglioside accumulation in storage diseases as well as the potential link between gangliosides and dendritogenesis also provide a strong rationale for developing pharmacological means to manipulate ganglioside expression in neurons.

Indexed as

AnimalsDendritesEndosomesGangliosidosesGlycolipidsHumansLysosomesGlycolipids

Identifiers

PMID12803923
PMCPMC1693176
OpenAlexW2014654059

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