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ArticleWorld journal of gastroenterology2010

Therapy-refractory gastrointestinal motility disorder in a child with c-kit mutations.

Christian Breuer, Jun Oh, Gerhard-J Molderings, Michael Schemann, Birgit Kuch, Ertan Mayatepek, Rüdiger Adam

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Article in World journal of gastroenterology, 2010. 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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5citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

5 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
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  3. Development and developmental disorders of the enteric nervous system.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2013
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  5. Gastrointestinal neuromuscular pathology in chronic constipation.Best practice & research. Clinical gastroenterology · 2011
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christian BreuerDepartment of General Pediatrics, University Children's Hospital, Moorenstr. 5, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany. christian.breuer@med.uni-duesseldorf.de
Jun Oh
Gerhard-J Molderings
Michael Schemann
Birgit Kuch
Ertan Mayatepek
Rüdiger Adam
Düsseldorf University Hospital · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Constipation and fecal impaction are frequent and distressing complaints in pediatric gastroenterology. Especially in neurologically handicapped children, treatment of severe forms of slow-transit constipation (STC) can be difficult. In the majority of cases, STC is of unknown etiology. However, in recent years, there is growing evidence that interstitial cells of Cajal (ICCs), which serve as electrical pacemakers and generate spontaneous electrical slow waves in the gastrointestinal tract, might play an important role in the pathophysiology of STC. It remains unclear whether morphological ICC alterations seen in affected patients are based on congenital developmental anomalies, or whether they are a consequence of long-term constipation with secondary damage of the gastrointestinal nervous system. To the best of our knowledge, we present the first case of a patient with histological alterations in ICC morphology who displayed multiple alterations of c-kit at the level of mRNA. The protein encoded by c-kit is the receptor tyrosine kinase Kit (CD117), which is crucial for development and function of ICCs. Therefore, these findings provide a new explanation for congenital alterations of ICC development that result in gastrointestinal motility disorders.

Indexed as

Gastrointestinal TransitMutationAdolescentConstipationHumansInterstitial Cells of CajalMaleProto-Oncogene Proteins c-kitProto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit

Identifiers

PMID20818822
PMCPMC2937119
OpenAlexW2145734939

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