Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22740507›Full record

ArticleJournal of cellular biochemistry2012

Early pathogenesis in the adult-onset neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Brigitte van Zundert, Pamela Izaurieta, Elsa Fritz, Francisco J Alvarez

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of cellular biochemistry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
46citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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

46 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 80 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Mature iPSC-derived astrocytes of an ALS/FTD patient carrying the TDP43Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023
    Article
  7. Review
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Review
  11. Frontiers in aging · 2022
    Review
  12. Review
  13. Review
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. Article
  17. Circuit-Specific Early Impairment of Proprioceptive Sensory Neurons in the SOD1The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2019
    Article
  18. Article
  19. Thy-1/CD90 a Bidirectional and Lateral Signaling Scaffold.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2019
    Review
  20. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Brigitte van ZundertFaculty of Biological Sciences and Faculty of Medicine, Center for Biomedical Research, Universidad Andres Bello, Avenida Republica 217, Santiago, Chile. bvanzundert@unab.cl.
Pamela Izaurieta
Elsa Fritz
Francisco J Alvarez
Universidad Andrés Bello · CLEmory University · USUniversity of Concepción · CL

Funding

DEVELOPMENT OF SYNAPTIC INPUTS ON SPINAL INTERNEURONSR01NS047357 · NINDS · WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ALVAREZ, FRANCISCO J · 2004 to 2025
$6.4M
Development of synaptic inputs on spinal interneuronsR56NS047357 · NINDS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI ALVAREZ, FRANCISCO J · 2013 to 2013
$390k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS047357NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS047357
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a devastating paralytic disorder caused by dysfunction and degeneration of motor neurons starting in adulthood. Most of our knowledge about the pathophysiological mechanisms of ALS comes from transgenic mice models that emulate a subgroup of familial ALS cases (FALS), with mutations in the gene encoding superoxide dismutase (SOD1). In the more than 15 years since these mice were generated, a large number of abnormal cellular mechanisms underlying motor neuron degeneration have been identified, but to date this effort has led to few improvements in therapy, and no cure. Here, we consider that this surfeit of mechanisms is best interpreted by current insights that suggest a very early initiation of pathology in motor neurons, followed by a diversity of secondary cascades and compensatory mechanisms that mask symptoms for decades, until trauma and/or aging overloads their protective function. This view thus posits that adult-onset ALS is the consequence of processes initiated during early development. In fact, motor neurons in neonatal mutant SOD mice display important alterations in their intrinsic electrical properties, synaptic inputs and morphology that are accompanied by subtle behavioral abnormalities. We consider evidence that human mutant SOD1 protein in neonatal hSOD1(G93A) mice instigates motor neuron degeneration by increasing persistent sodium currents and excitability, in turn altering synaptic circuits that control excessive motor neuron firing and leads to excitotoxicity. We also discuss how therapies that are aimed at suppressing abnormal neuronal activity might effectively mitigate or prevent the onset of irreversible neuronal damage in adulthood. J. Cell. Biochem. 113: 3301-3312, 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Indexed as

Amyotrophic Lateral SclerosisAnimalsAnimals, NewbornCalciumDisease Models, AnimalHumansMiceMice, TransgenicMotor NeuronsMutationSodium ChannelsSuperoxide DismutaseSuperoxide Dismutase-1SynapsesCalciumSOD1 protein, humanSod1 protein, mouseSodium ChannelsSuperoxide DismutaseSuperoxide Dismutase-1

Identifiers

PMID22740507
PMCPMC3886915
OpenAlexW2169604722

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.