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ArticleNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology2016

Reduced Labeling of Parvalbumin Neurons and Perineuronal Nets in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex of Subjects with Schizophrenia.

John F Enwright, Sowmya Sanapala, Aaron Foglio, Raissa Berry, Kenneth N Fish, David A Lewis

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Article in Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 148 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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148citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
12.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

148 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 233 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pre-frontal parvalbumin interneurons in schizophrenia: a meta-analysis of post-mortem studies.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2019
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  9. Synaptic dysfunction and adaptation after NMDA receptor ablation in the mouse medial prefrontal cortex.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  19. Critical Periods and Beyond: Dynamic Functions of Perineuronal Nets in Cognition, Development, and Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

John F EnwrightDepartment of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Sowmya SanapalaDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Aaron FoglioDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Raissa BerryDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Kenneth N FishDepartment of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
David A LewisDepartment of Psychiatry, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Statistics and Data Management CoreP50MH103204 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI OLSON, CARL ROGER · 2014 to 2018
$10.8M
SCHIZOPHRENIA AND CORTICAL DOPAMINE/GABA INTERACTIONSR01MH043784 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LEWIS, DAVID A · 1988 to 2023
$7.2M
GABA Neurons and Cortical Circuitry in SchizophreniaR37MH043784 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LEWIS, DAVID A · 2001 to 2010
$6.8M
Chandelier cell inputs to pyramidal neurons in schizophrenia and developmentR01MH096985 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI FISH, KENNETH N · 2012 to 2015
$1.2M
NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH103204NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH043784NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH096985NIMH NIH HHS R37 MH043784
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Alterations in cortical parvalbumin (PV)-containing neurons, including a reduced density of detectable neurons and lower PV levels, have frequently been reported in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) of schizophrenia subjects. Most PV neurons are surrounded by perineuronal nets (PNNs) and the density of PNNs, as detected by Wisteria floribunda agglutinin (WFA) labeling, has been reported to be lower in schizophrenia. However, the nature of these PNN alterations, and their relationship to disease-related changes in PV neurons, has not been assessed. Using confocal microscopy, we quantified the densities and fluorescence intensities of PV neurons and PNNs labeled with WFA or immunoreactive for the major PNN protein, aggrecan, in the DLPFC from schizophrenia and matched comparison subjects. In schizophrenia, the densities of PV cells and of PNNs were not altered; however, the fluorescence intensities of PV immunoreactivity in cell bodies and of WFA labeling and aggrecan immunoreactivity in individual PNNs around PV cells were lower. These findings indicate that the normal complements of PV cells and PNNs are preserved in schizophrenia, but the levels of PV protein and of individual PNN components, especially the carbohydrate moieties on proteoglycans to which WFA binds, are lower. Given the roles of PV neurons in regulating DLPFC microcircuits and of PNNs in regulating PV cellular physiology, the identified alterations in PV neurons and their PNNs could contribute to DLPFC dysfunction in schizophrenia.

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AdultFemaleHumansImmunohistochemistryMaleMiddle AgedNeuronsParvalbuminsPlant LectinsPrefrontal CortexReceptors, N-AcetylglucosamineSchizophreniaParvalbuminsPlant LectinsReceptors, N-Acetylglucosaminewisteria lectin

Identifiers

PMID26868058
PMCPMC4946056
OpenAlexW2268380328

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