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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2013

Synaptic Signaling in Learning and Memory.

Mary B Kennedy

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 127 papers.

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127citing papers in PubMed
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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

127 citing papers in PubMed, 265 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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mary B KennedyDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125.
California Institute of Technology · US

Funding

Time Resolved Assay of Synaptic Enzyme Activity by Mass SpectrometryR01MH095095 · NIMH · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI KENNEDY, MARY B · 2011 to 2014
$1.7M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH095095
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Learning and memory require the formation of new neural networks in the brain. A key mechanism underlying this process is synaptic plasticity at excitatory synapses, which connect neurons into networks. Excitatory synaptic transmission happens when glutamate, the excitatory neurotransmitter, activates receptors on the postsynaptic neuron. Synaptic plasticity is a higher-level process in which the strength of excitatory synapses is altered in response to the pattern of activity at the synapse. It is initiated in the postsynaptic compartment, where the precise pattern of influx of calcium through activated glutamate receptors leads either to the addition of new receptors and enlargement of the synapse (long-term potentiation) or the removal of receptors and shrinkage of the synapse (long-term depression). Calcium/calmodulin-regulated enzymes and small GTPases collaborate to control this highly tuned mechanism.

Indexed as

Synaptic TransmissionAnimalsGTP PhosphohydrolasesHumansMemoryNeuronal PlasticityNeurotransmitter AgentsReceptors, AMPAGTP PhosphohydrolasesNeurotransmitter AgentsReceptors, AMPA

Identifiers

PMID24379319
PMCPMC4743082
OpenAlexW2166158223

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