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Trial reportNeurotoxicology2011

Perfusion deficit to cholinergic challenge in veterans with Gulf War Illness.

Peiying Liu, Sina Aslan, Xiufeng Li, David M Buhner, Jeffrey S Spence, Richard W Briggs, Robert W Haley, Hanzhang Lu

Registry-linked trialAbstract readComparative StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Neurotoxicology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04586049 (Autonomic Dysfunction, Brain Blood Flow and Cognitive Decline in Veterans With Gulf War Illness), which is not on this map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-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

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.

NCT04586049 active not recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Autonomic Dysfunction, Brain Blood Flow and Cognitive Decline in Veterans With Gulf War Illness

TypeobservationalSponsorUniversity of Wisconsin, MadisonRan2023 to 2026Enrolled70ConditionsBrain Blood Flow, Neurovascular ControlArmsMRI, Transcranial Doppler Ultrasound, Sympathetic Nerve Activity
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Subcortical brain atrophy in Gulf War Illness.Experimental brain research · 2017
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  9. A Neuroimmune Model of Gulf War Illness.Journal of environment and health sciences · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Peiying LiuAdvanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA.
Sina Aslan
Xiufeng Li
David M Buhner
Jeffrey S Spence
Richard W Briggs
Robert W Haley
Hanzhang Lu
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center · USAdvanced Imaging Research (United States) · USSouthwestern Medical Center · US

Funding

NORTH AND CENTRAL TEXAS CTSA FOR PEDIATRIC RESEARCHUL1RR024982 · NCRR · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI TOTO, ROBERT DANIEL · 2007 to 2011
$27.9M
Modulation of brain activity by control of the inspired airR01NS067015 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LU, HANZHANG · 2010 to 2013
$1.5M
NCRR NIH HHS UL1 RR024982NCRR NIH HHS UL1RR024982NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS067015
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A highly plausible etiology for Gulf War Illness (GWI) is that the neural damage and cognitive deficits are associated with excessive exposure to cholinesterase-inhibiting cholinergic stimulants. Our previous SPECT study provided strong indication that cerebral blood flow (CBF) in veterans with GWI may be different from those of unaffected control veterans. The present study confirmed and extended previous findings that patients with GWI have abnormal response to an inhibitory cholinergic challenge, physostigmine infusion, when compared to age-gender-education matched control veterans. The MRI-based arterial spin labeling (ASL) and phase-contrast techniques have several key advantages over SPECT, including shorter experiment duration, complete non-invasiveness, and higher spatial and temporal resolutions, and therefore may provide a cost-effective biomarker for characterization of GWI.

Indexed as

Magnetic Resonance ImagingVeteransAdultAgedCerebrovascular CirculationCholinergic AgentsCholinesterase InhibitorsGulf WarHumansMaleMiddle AgedPersian Gulf SyndromePhysostigmineRegional Blood FlowCholinergic AgentsCholinesterase InhibitorsPhysostigmine

Identifiers

PMID21147163
PMCPMC3049842
OpenAlexW2034146727

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Registered trials

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