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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2011

The BMP signaling pathway at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction and its links to neurodegenerative diseases.

Vafa Bayat, Manish Jaiswal, Hugo J Bellen

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
68citing papers in PubMed
4.3field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

68 citing papers in PubMed, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Genetic interaction ofFrontiers in neuroscience · 2026
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  6. Postsynaptic BMP signaling regulates myonuclear properties inbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  9. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  12. BMP/TGF-β signaling as a modulator of neurodegeneration in ALS.Developmental dynamics : an official publication of the American Association of Anatomists · 2022
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  17. The 15q11.2 BP1-BP2 Microdeletion (International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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8 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Vafa BayatProgram in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
Manish Jaiswal
Hugo J Bellen
Baylor College of Medicine · US

Funding

Developmental Biology Training ProgramT32HD055200 · NICHD · BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE · PI BELLEN, HUGO J · 2007 to 2011
$1.3M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNICHD NIH HHS T32 HD055200
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Drosophila neuromuscular junction (NMJ) has recently provided new insights into the roles of various proteins in neurodegenerative diseases including Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), and Huntington's Disease (HD). Several developmental signaling pathways including WNT, MAPK and BMP/TGF-β signaling play important roles in the formation and growth of the Drosophila NMJ. Studies of the fly homologues of genes that cause neurodegenerative disease at the NMJ have resulted in a better understanding of the roles of these proteins in vivo. These studies may shed light on the pathological mechanisms of these diseases, with implications for reduced BMP/TGF-β signaling in ALS, SMA and HD and increased signaling in HSP and MS.

Indexed as

AnimalsBone Morphogenetic ProteinsDrosophilaHumansNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeuromuscular JunctionSignal TransductionTransforming Growth Factor betaBone Morphogenetic ProteinsTransforming Growth Factor beta

Identifiers

PMID20832291
PMCPMC3095363
OpenAlexW2106440279

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