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ArticleNeuron2007

Correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.

Gül Dölen, Emily Osterweil, B S Shankaranarayana Rao, Gordon B Smith, Benjamin D Auerbach, Sumantra Chattarji, Mark F Bear

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Article in Neuron, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 555 papers.

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555citing papers in PubMed
32.1field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

555 citing papers in PubMed, 975 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Gül DölenHoward Hughes Medical Institute, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Emily Osterweil
B S Shankaranarayana Rao
Gordon B Smith
Benjamin D Auerbach
Sumantra Chattarji
Mark F Bear
Howard Hughes Medical Institute · USMassachusetts Institute of Technology · USBrown University · USNational Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences · INTata Institute of Fundamental Research · IN

Funding

Synaptic substrate of receptive field plasticity &memoryP50MH058880 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI MILLER, EARL K · 1999 to 2008
$12.7M
Mechanisms and Functions of FMRP in Neuronal DevelopmentR01HD046943 · NICHD · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BEAR, MARK F · 2003 to 2014
$2.9M
NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD046943NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH058880
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fragile X syndrome (FXS) is the most common form of heritable mental retardation and the leading identified cause of autism. FXS is caused by transcriptional silencing of the FMR1 gene that encodes the fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP), but the pathogenesis of the disease is unknown. According to one proposal, many psychiatric and neurological symptoms of FXS result from unchecked activation of mGluR5, a metabotropic glutamate receptor. To test this idea we generated Fmr1 mutant mice with a 50% reduction in mGluR5 expression and studied a range of phenotypes with relevance to the human disorder. Our results demonstrate that mGluR5 contributes significantly to the pathogenesis of the disease, a finding that has significant therapeutic implications for fragile X and related developmental disorders.

Indexed as

Acoustic StimulationAnimalsBehavior, AnimalDisease Models, AnimalFragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein 1Fragile X SyndromeFunctional LateralityGene Expression RegulationHeterozygoteLearningMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutMultivariate AnalysisNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsFmr1 protein, mouseFragile X Messenger Ribonucleoprotein 1GRM5 protein, humanGrm5 protein, mouseReceptor, Metabotropic Glutamate 5Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate

Identifiers

PMID18093519
PMCPMC2199268
OpenAlexW2084889756

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