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ArticleJournal of child neurology2015

Peripheral Innervation in Children With Global Developmental Delay: Biomarker for Risk for Self-Injurious Behavior?

Frank J Symons, Raymond C Tervo, Chantel C Barney, John Damerow, Mona Selim, Brian McAdams, Shawn Foster, Gwen Wendelschafer Crabb, William Kennedy

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Article in Journal of child neurology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Neuronal cytoskeletal gene dysregulation and mechanical hypersensitivity in a rat model of Rett syndrome.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017
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  4. Mast Cell-Mediated Mechanisms of Nociception.International journal of molecular sciences · 2015
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Frank J SymonsDepartment of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA symon007@umn.edu.
Raymond C TervoMayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
Chantel C BarneyGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare, St. Paul, MN, USA.
John DamerowDepartment of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Mona SelimUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Brian McAdamsUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Shawn FosterUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Gwen Wendelschafer CrabbUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
William KennedyUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
University of Minnesota · USGillette Children's Specialty Healthcare · USMayo Clinic in Arizona · USMinnesota Department of Education · US

Funding

Sensory Mechanisms and Self-InjuryR01HD044763 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI FRANK J SYMONS · 2004 to 2026
$7.2M
Self-injury: Pain and Stress MechanismsK02HD047201 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI SYMONS, FRANK J · 2006 to 2010
$554k
NICHD NIH HHS K02 HD047201NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD044763
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The relation between somatosensory mechanisms and self-injury among children with neurologic impairments associated with developmental delay is not well understood. We evaluated the feasibility of procuring skin biopsies to examine epidermal nerve fiber density and reported self-injury. Following informed parental consent, epidermal skin biopsies were obtained from a distal leg site with no pre-existing skin damage from 11 children with global developmental delay (55% male; mean age = 36.8 months, 17-63 months). Visual microscopic examination and quantitative analyses showed extremely high epidermal nerve fiber density values for some children. Children with reported self-injury (5/11) had significantly (P < .02) greater density values (138.8, standard deviation = 45.5) than children without self-injury (80.5, standard deviation = 17.5). Results from this novel immunohistologic analysis of skin in very young children with neurodevelopmental delays suggest it may be a useful tool to study peripheral innervation as a possible sensory risk factor for self-injury.

Indexed as

BiomarkersChildChild, PreschoolDevelopmental DisabilitiesFemaleHumansImmunohistochemistryInfantMaleMicroscopy, ConfocalRiskRisk FactorsSelf-Injurious BehaviorSkinBiomarkersdevelopmental delayperipheral innervationriskself-injurysensory

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PMID25918119
PMCPMC4610824
OpenAlexW2094743179

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