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ReviewMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society2013

Neuronal vulnerability, pathogenesis, and Parkinson's disease.

David Sulzer, D James Surmeier

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Review in Movement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 101 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
101citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
14.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% 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

101 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 317 citations in OpenAlex.

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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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David SulzerDepartment of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA. ds43@columbia.edu
D James Surmeier
Columbia University · USNorthwestern University · US

Funding

TRANSLATIONAL APPROACHES TO NEUROPROTECTION OF AXONS IN PDrP50NS038370 · NINDS · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI BURKE, ROBERT E · 1999 to 2014
$24.0M
SYNAPTIC CONTROLOF PALLIDAL ACTIVITYP50NS047085 · NINDS · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI SURMEIER, DALTON JAMES · 2003 to 2018
$19.2M
The Presynaptic Vesicle Cycle for the Slow Acting Neurotransmitter SecretionP01DA010154 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI KREITZER, ANATOL, SULZER, DAVID · 1995 to 2016
$14.7M
The Dopamine Synapse and Associative LearningR01DA007418 · NIDA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI David Sulzer · 1999 to 2026
$9.4M
NIDA NIH HHS P01 DA010154NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA007418NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS038370NINDS NIH HHS P50 NS047085NINDS NIH HHS P50NS047085NINDS NIH HHS P50NS38370
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although there have been significant advances, pathogenesis in Parkinson's disease (PD) is still poorly understood. Potential clues about pathogenesis that have not been systematically pursued are suggested by the restricted pattern of neuronal pathology in the disease. In addition to dopaminergic neurons in the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc), a significant number of other central and peripheral neuronal populations exhibit Lewy pathology (LP), phenotypic dysregulation, or frank degeneration in PD patients. Drawing on this literature, there appear to be a small number of risk factors contributing to vulnerability. These include autonomous activity, broad action potentials, low intrinsic calcium-buffering capacity, poorly myelinated long highly branched axons and terminal fields, and use of a monoamine neurotransmitter, often with the catecholamine-derived neuromelanin pigment. Of these phenotypic traits, only the physiological ones appear to provide a reachable therapeutic target at present.

Indexed as

alpha-SynucleinHumansNerve DegenerationNervous SystemNeuronsParkinson Diseasealpha-Synuclein

Identifiers

PMID22791686
PMCPMC3578396
OpenAlexW2148214085

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