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ReviewNeuropharmacology

From synapse to nucleus: novel targets for treating depression.

Herbert E Covington, Vincent Vialou, Eric J Nestler

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Review in Neuropharmacology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  12. Additive antidepressant-like effects of fasting with β-estradiol in mice.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2019
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  14. JNK Regulation of Depression and Anxiety.Brain plasticity (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2018
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  17. New targets for rapid antidepressant action.Progress in neurobiology · 2017
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  20. SIRT1 Mediates Depression-Like Behaviors in the Nucleus Accumbens.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Herbert E CovingtonFishberg Department of Neuroscience, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY 10029, USA.
Vincent Vialou
Eric J Nestler

Funding

Transgenic CoreP50MH066172 · NIMH · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI NESTLER, ERIC J. · 2002 to 2011
$19.4M
Using neuroeconomics to disentangle the transcriptional mechanisms underlying resilience versus susceptibility to stressR01MH051399 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI NESTLER, ERIC J. · 1994 to 2023
$10.2M
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH066172NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH051399
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The need for newer compounds to treat depression is an ever-growing concern due to the enormous societal and financial ramifications of this disorder. Here, we review some of the candidate systems that could potentially be involved in depression, or an inherent resistance to depression termed resilience, and the numerous protein targets for these systems. A substantial body of literature provides strong evidence that neurotrophic factors, glutamate receptors, hypothalamic feeding peptides, nuclear hormone receptors, and epigenetic mechanisms, among others, will make for interesting targets when examining depressive behavior or resilience in preclinical models, and eventually clinical trials. Although some of these targets for depression already appear promising, new waves of more selective compounds for any molecular system should promote a better understanding of this complex disease and perhaps improved treatments.

Indexed as

Drug DesignAnimalsAntidepressive AgentsCell NucleusDepressive DisorderDrug Delivery SystemsHumansSynapsesAntidepressive Agents

Identifiers

PMID20018197
PMCPMC2821954

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