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ArticleMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2008

Cancer and blood concentrations of the comutagen harmane in essential tremor.

Elan D Louis, Kathryn M Pellegrino, Pam Factor-Litvak, Eileen Rios, Wendy Jiang, Claire Henchcliffe, Wei Zheng

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Article in Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Conditions Associated with Essential Tremor in Veterans: A Potential Role for Chronic Stress.Tremor and other hyperkinetic movements (New York, N.Y.) · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Elan D LouisGH Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. edl2@columbia.edu
Kathryn M Pellegrino
Pam Factor-Litvak
Eileen Rios
Wendy Jiang
Claire Henchcliffe
Wei Zheng
Columbia University · USPurdue University West Lafayette · USCornell University · US

Funding

True Metal fac coreP30ES009089 · NIEHS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI MATTHEW S PERZANOWSKI · 1998 to 2026
$44.7M
ZOLEDRONIC ACID IN PROSTATE CANCERM01RR000645 · NCRR · COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE · PI COLTEN, HARVEY R · 1985 to 2006
$27.0M
ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ESSENTIAL TREMORR01NS039422 · NINDS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LOUIS, ELAN D · 2000 to 2013
$7.7M
Pathogenesis Of Essential Tremor: Cerebellar MetabolismR01NS042859 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI LOUIS, ELAN D · 2003 to 2012
$4.9M
NCRR NIH HHS M01 RR000645NCRR NIH HHS RR00645NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES009089NIEHS NIH HHS P30 ES09089NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS039422NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS042859
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Blood concentrations of harmane, a tremor-producing neurotoxin, are elevated in essential tremor (ET). Harmane is also a comutagen. Using a case-control design, we compared the prevalence of cancer in ET cases vs. controls, and determined whether blood harmane concentrations are elevated among ET cases with cancer. 66/267 (24.7%) ET cases vs. 55/331 (16.6%) controls had cancer (adjusted OR 1.52, 95% CI 1.01-2.30, P = 0.04). Among specific cancer types, colon cancer was more prevalent in ET cases than controls (2.6% vs. 0.6%, P = 0.04). Log blood harmane concentration was higher in ET cases vs. controls (P = 0.02) and in participants with vs. without cancer (P = 0.02). Log blood harmane concentration was highest in ET cases with cancer when compared with other groups (P = 0.009). These links between cancer and ET and between high blood harmane and cancer in ET deserve further study.

Indexed as

AgedChi-Square DistributionEssential TremorFemaleHarmineHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeoplasmsharmanHarmine

Identifiers

PMID18709680
PMCPMC2597456
OpenAlexW2098425164

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