Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26370700›Full record

ReviewCurrent diabetes reports2015

Mitochondrial dysfunction in diabetic neuropathy: a series of unfortunate metabolic events.

Paul Fernyhough

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Review in Current diabetes reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 90 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
90citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
6.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

90 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 154 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Alpha-lipoic acid for diabetic peripheral neuropathy.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024
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  13. Diabetic neuropathy: cutting-edge research and future directions.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2025
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  14. Maladaptive Peripheral Ketogenesis in Schwann Cells Mediated by CBAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025
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  19. Diabetic neuropathy: A NRF2 disease?Journal of diabetes · 2024
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30 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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.

Paul FernyhoughDivision of Neurodegenerative Disorders, St Boniface Hospital Research Centre, R4046-351 Taché Ave, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R2H 2A6, Canada. pfernyhough@sbrc.ca.
St. Boniface Hospital · CA

Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research MOP-130282
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic neuropathy is a dying back neurodegenerative disease of the peripheral nervous system where mitochondrial dysfunction has been implicated as an etiological factor. Diabetes (type 1 or type 2) invokes an elevation of intracellular glucose concentration simultaneously with impaired growth factor support by insulin, and this dual alteration triggers a maladaptation in metabolism of adult sensory neurons. The energy sensing pathway comprising the AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK)/sirtuin (SIRT)/peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-γ coactivator α (PGC-1α) signaling axis is the target of these damaging changes in nutrient levels, e.g., induction of nutrient stress, and loss of insulin-dependent growth factor support and instigates an aberrant metabolic phenotype characterized by a suppression of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation and shift to anaerobic glycolysis. There is discussion of how this loss of mitochondrial function and transition to overreliance on glycolysis contributes to the diminishment of collateral sprouting and axon regeneration in diabetic neuropathy in the context of the highly energy-consuming nerve growth cone.

Indexed as

AnimalsDiabetic NeuropathiesHumansInsulinMitochondriaSignal TransductionStress, PhysiologicalInsulinAxon regenerationBioenergeticsDiabetic complicationsInsulinNutrient stressSensory neuron

Identifiers

PMID26370700
OpenAlexW1831581079

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