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ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2016

Dysregulations of Synaptic Vesicle Trafficking in Schizophrenia.

Chijioke N Egbujo, Duncan Sinclair, Chang-Gyu Hahn

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Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 40 papers.

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40citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

40 citing papers in PubMed, 70 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. miRNA-Based Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Using Machine Learning.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  17. In Vitro Recapitulation of Neuropsychiatric Disorders with Pluripotent Stem Cells-Derived Brain Organoids.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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  19. Mechanism ofEvidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Chijioke N EgbujoDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Duncan SinclairNeuroscience Research Australia, Barker St, Randwick, NSW, 2031, Australia.
Chang-Gyu HahnDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. hahnc@exchange.upenn.edu.
University of Pennsylvania · USNeuroscience Research Australia · AU

Funding

Institutional Clinical and Translational Science AwardKL2TR001879 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI MEAGHER, EMMA ANNE · 2016 to 2025
$13.7M
NMDA Receptor Hypofunction in the Amygdala of Schizophrenia PatientsP50MH096891 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BILKER, WARREN B. · 2012 to 2016
$10.6M
Olfactory Evoked Potentials and Developmental Neuropathology in SchizophreniaR01MH059852 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HAHN, CHANG-GYU, TURETSKY, BRUCE I · 1999 to 2015
$6.6M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY-PREDOCTORALT32MH014654 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BERRETTINI, WADE H · 1985 to 2021
$5.0M
Institutional Clinical and Translational Science AwardKL2TR000139 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI FITZGERALD, GARRET A · 2012 to 2015
$3.9M
Src mediates molecular alterations leading to NMDAR hypofunction in schizophreniaR01MH075916 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BORGMANN-WINTER, KARIN, HAHN, CHANG-GYU · 2006 to 2019
$3.3M
Lithium responsivenessR01MH080193 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HAHN, CHANG-GYU · 2008 to 2012
$2.7M
NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR000139NCATS NIH HHS KL2 TR001879NIMH NIH HHS P50 MH096891NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH059852NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH075916NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH080193NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH014654
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a serious psychiatric illness which is experienced by about 1 % of individuals worldwide and has a debilitating impact on perception, cognition, and social function. Over the years, several models/hypotheses have been developed which link schizophrenia to dysregulations of the dopamine, glutamate, and serotonin receptor pathways. An important segment of these pathways that have been extensively studied for the pathophysiology of schizophrenia is the presynaptic neurotransmitter release mechanism. This set of molecular events is an evolutionarily well-conserved process that involves vesicle recruitment, docking, membrane fusion, and recycling, leading to efficient neurotransmitter delivery at the synapse. Accumulated evidence indicate dysregulation of this mechanism impacting postsynaptic signal transduction via different neurotransmitters in key brain regions implicated in schizophrenia. In recent years, after ground-breaking work that elucidated the operations of this mechanism, research efforts have focused on the alterations in the messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein expression of presynaptic neurotransmitter release molecules in schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric conditions. In this review article, we present recent evidence from schizophrenia human postmortem studies that key proteins involved in the presynaptic release mechanism are dysregulated in the disorder. We also discuss the potential impact of dysfunctional presynaptic neurotransmitter release on the various neurotransmitter systems implicated in schizophrenia.

Indexed as

Schizophrenic PsychologyAnimalsBrainHumansMunc18 ProteinsNeurotransmitter AgentsQa-SNARE ProteinsReceptors, PresynapticRNA, MessengerR-SNARE ProteinsSchizophreniaSignal TransductionSNARE ProteinsSynapsinsSynaptic VesiclesSynaptophysinMunc18 ProteinsNeurotransmitter AgentsQa-SNARE ProteinsReceptors, PresynapticRNA, MessengerR-SNARE ProteinsSNARE ProteinsSynapsinsSynaptophysinSynaptosomal-Associated Protein 25SYP protein, humanComplexinMunc18NeurotransmitterPresynapticSchizophreniaSNAP-25 (synaptosomal-associated protein 25)SNARE (soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptor)SynapsinSynaptobrevinSynaptophysinSyntaxin

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PMID27371030
PMCPMC5134737
OpenAlexW2468003764

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