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ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2008

Potential therapeutic interest of adenosine A2A receptors in psychiatric disorders.

Rodrigo A Cunha, Sergi Ferré, Jean-Marie Vaugeois, Jiang-Fan Chen

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Review in Current pharmaceutical design, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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65citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
10.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Purinergic system dysfunction in mood disorders: a key target for developing improved therapeutics.Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2015
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  3. Association of the anxiogenic and alerting effects of caffeine with ADORA2A and ADORA1 polymorphisms and habitual level of caffeine consumption.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2010
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Rodrigo A CunhaCenter for Neuroscience of Coimbra, Institute of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Coimbra, Portugal. cunharod@gmail.com
Sergi Ferré
Jean-Marie Vaugeois
Jiang-Fan Chen
University of Coimbra · PTCentre Hospitalier Le Vinatier · FRNational Institute on Drug Abuse · US

Funding

Neurotransmitter Receptor Heteromers in the Striatal Spine ModuleZ01DA000493 · NIDA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE · PI GOLDBERG, STEVEN R · 2006 to 2008
$691k
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 DA000493
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interest on targeting adenosine A(2A) receptors in the realm of psychiatric diseases first arose based on their tight physical and functional interaction with dopamine D(2) receptors. However, the role of central A(2A) receptors is now viewed as much broader than just controlling D(2) receptor function. Thus, there is currently a major interest in the ability of A(2A) receptors to control synaptic plasticity at glutamatergic synapses. This is due to a combined ability of A(2A) receptors to facilitate the release of glutamate and the activation of NMDA receptors. Therefore, A(2A) receptors are now conceived as a normalizing device promoting adequate adaptive responses in neuronal circuits, a role similar to that fulfilled, in essence, by dopamine. This makes A(2A) receptors particularly attractive targets to manage psychiatric disorders since adenosine may act as go-between glutamate and dopamine, two of the key players in mood processing. Furthermore, A(2A) receptors also control glia function and brain metabolic adaptation, two other emerging mechanisms to understand abnormal processing of mood, and A(2A) receptors are important players in controlling the demise of neurodegeneration, considered an amplificatory loop in psychiatric disorders. Current data only provide an indirect confirmation of this putative role of A(2A) receptors, based on the effects of caffeine (an antagonist of both A(1) and A(2A) receptors) in psychiatric disorders. However, the introduction of A(2A) receptors antagonists in clinics as anti-parkinsonian agents is hoped to bolster our knowledge on the role of A(2A) receptors in mood disorders in the near future.

Indexed as

AnxietyAttention Deficit Disorder with HyperactivityBrainDepressionHumansMental DisordersNerve DegenerationReceptor, Adenosine A2AReceptors, Dopamine D2SchizophreniaReceptor, Adenosine A2AReceptors, Dopamine D2

Identifiers

PMID18537674
PMCPMC2423946
OpenAlexW2094888594

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