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ReviewProgress in brain research2016

Normal and epilepsy-associated pathologic function of the dentate gyrus.

C G Dengler, D A Coulter

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Review in Progress in brain research, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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43citing papers in PubMed
12.9field-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

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

43 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cell-Intrinsic Regulation of Epilepsy-Associated Pathology by mTORC1 and mTORC2.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  6. Comparative analysis of adenosine 1 receptor expression and function in hippocampal and hypothalamic neurons.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2025
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  17. mTORC2 Inhibition Improves Morphological Effects of PTEN Loss, But Does Not Correct Synaptic Dysfunction or Prevent Seizures.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  19. Early death in a mouse model of Alzheimer's disease exacerbated by microglial loss of TAM receptor signaling.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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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 2 institutions in 1 country.

C G DenglerPerelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States.
D A CoulterPerelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States; The Research Institute of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, United States. Electronic address: coulterd@email.chop.edu.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Neuronal Circuit Mechanisms of EpileptogenesisR01NS038572 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI COULTER, DOUGLAS A · 1999 to 2022
$8.0M
Normal and Pathological Function of the Dentate GyrusR01NS082046 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S HOSP OF PHILADELPHIA · PI Hajime Takano · 2012 to 2026
$6.1M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS038572NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS082046
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dentate gyrus plays critical roles both in cognitive processing, and in regulation of the induction and propagation of pathological activity. The cellular and circuit mechanisms underlying these diverse functions overlap extensively. At the cellular level, the intrinsic properties of dentate granule cells combine to endow these neurons with a fundamental reluctance to activate, one of their hallmark traits. At the circuit level, the dentate gyrus constitutes one of the more heavily inhibited regions of the brain, with strong, fast feedforward and feedback GABAergic inhibition dominating responses to afferent activation. In pathologic states such as epilepsy, a number of alterations within the dentate gyrus combine to compromise the regulatory properties of this circuit, culminating in a collapse of its normal function. This epilepsy-associated transformation in the fundamental properties of this critical regulatory hippocampal circuit may contribute both to seizure propensity, and cognitive and emotional comorbidities characteristic of this disease state.

Indexed as

AnimalsDentate GyrusEpilepsyGABAergic NeuronsHumansMembrane PotentialsCalcium imagingDentate granule cellsDentate gyrusEpilepsyFunctional imagingGABAHippocampusPatch clamp

Identifiers

PMID27323942
PMCPMC5115632
OpenAlexW2489879568

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