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ReviewThe Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry2012

Presynaptically silent synapses: dormancy and awakening of presynaptic vesicle release.

Devon C Crawford, Steven Mennerick

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In one paragraph

Review in The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 32% 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Structural Preservation Does Not Ensure Function at Sensory Ia-Motoneuron Synapses following Peripheral Nerve Injury and Repair.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  19. Knowing a synapse when you see one.Frontiers in neuroanatomy · 2015
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  20. A Synaptic Function Approach to Investigating Complex Psychiatric Diseases.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Devon C CrawfordGraduate Program in Neuroscience, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
Steven Mennerick
Washington University in St. Louis · US

Funding

CONTROL OF SYNAPTIC GLUTAMATE RELEASER01MH078823 · NIMH · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MENNERICK, STEVEN J · 2006 to 2015
$3.2M
Induction pathways in hippocampal adaptive synaptic plasticityF31NS066611 · NINDS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CRAWFORD, DEVON C · 2009 to 2010
$54k
NIMH NIH HHS MH078823NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH078823NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS066611NINDS NIH HHS NS066611
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synapses represent the main junctures of communication between neurons in the nervous system. In many neurotransmitter systems, a fraction of presynaptic terminals fails to release vesicles in response to action potential stimulation and strong calcium influx. These silent presynaptic terminals exhibit a reversible functional dormancy beyond low vesicle release probability, and dormancy status may have important implications in neural function. Recent advances have implicated presynaptic proteins interacting with vesicles downstream of cAMP and protein kinase A signaling cascades in modulating the number of these mute presynaptic terminals, and dormancy induction may represent a homeostatic neuroprotective mechanism active during pathological insults involving excitotoxicity. Interestingly, dormancy reversal may also be induced during Hebbian plasticity. Here, details of synaptic dormancy, recent insights into the molecular signaling cascades involved, and potential clinical and mechanistic implications of this form of synaptic plasticity are described.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansNeuronal PlasticityPresynaptic TerminalsSignal TransductionSynapsesSynaptic TransmissionSynaptic Vesicles

Identifiers

PMID21908849
PMCPMC3951726
OpenAlexW2121155737

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