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ArticleEuropean journal of histochemistry : EJH2014

Brain morphological defects in prolidase deficient mice: first report.

V Insolia, V M Piccolini

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Article in European journal of histochemistry : EJH, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 34% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Serum Prolidase and Ischemia-Modified Albumin Levels in Neural Tube Defects: A Comparative Study of Myelomeningocele, Meningocele, and Myeloschisis.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2025
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  5. Is there still room for novelty, in histochemical papers?European journal of histochemistry : EJH · 2016
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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 2 countries.

V InsoliaUniversity of Pavia. violetta.insolia01@ateneopv.it.
V M Piccolini
University of Pavia · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prolidase gene (PEPD) encodes prolidase enzyme, which is responsible for hydrolysis of dipeptides containing proline or hydroxyproline at their C-terminal end. Mutations in PEPD gene cause, in human, prolidase deficiency (PD), a rare autosomal recessive disorder. PD patients show reduced or absent prolidase activity and a broad spectrum of phenotypic traits including various degrees of mental retardation. This is the first report correlating PD and brain damages using as a model system prolidase deficient mice, the so called dark-like (dal) mutant mice. We focused our attention on dal postnatal brain development, revealing a panel of different morphological defects in the cerebral and cerebellar cortices, such as undulations of the cerebral cortex, cell rarefaction, defects in cerebellar cortex lobulation, and blood vessels overgrowth. These anomalies might be ascribed to altered angiogenic process and loss of pial basement membrane integrity. Further studies will be directed to find a correlation between neuroarchitecture alterations and functional consequences.

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AnimalsBrainDipeptidasesFluorescent Antibody TechniqueMaleMiceMice, KnockoutMutationPhenotypeStaining and LabelingDipeptidasesproline dipeptidase

Identifiers

PMID25308848
PMCPMC4194396
OpenAlexW2131328150

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