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ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2016

Protein Kinase A and Anxiety-Related Behaviors: A Mini-Review.

Margaret F Keil, George Briassoulis, Constantine A Stratakis, T John Wu

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Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Margaret F KeilSection on Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) , Bethesda, MD , USA.
George BriassoulisSection on Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD, USA; Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
Constantine A StratakisSection on Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), National Institutes of Health (NIH) , Bethesda, MD , USA.
T John WuDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences , Bethesda, MD , USA.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · USNational Institutes of Health · USUniformed Services University of the Health Sciences · US

Funding

Molecular Genetics of Endocrine Tumors and Related DisordersZIAHD008920 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI STRATAKIS, CONSTANTINE A. · 2012 to 2021
$25.8M
Molecular Genetics Of Adrenocortical Tumors And Related DisordersZ01HD000642 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI STRATAKIS, CONSTANTINE A. · 1998 to 2008
$4.7M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 HD000642
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review focuses on the anxiety related to cyclic AMP/protein kinase A (PKA) signaling pathway that regulates stress responses. PKA regulates an array of diverse signals that interact with various neurotransmitter systems associated with alertness, mood, and acute and social anxiety-like states. Recent mouse studies support the involvement of the PKA pathway in common neuropsychiatric disorders characterized by heightened activation of the amygdala. The amygdala is critical for adaptive responses leading to fear learning and aberrant fear memory and its heightened activation is widely thought to underpin various anxiety disorders. Stress-induced plasticity within the amygdala is involved in the transition from normal vigilance responses to emotional reactivity, fear over-generalization, and deficits in fear inhibition resulting in pathological anxiety and conditions, such as panic and depression. Human studies of PKA signaling defects also report an increased incidence of psychiatric disorders, including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, learning disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. We speculate that the PKA system is uniquely suited for selective, molecularly targeted intervention that may be proven effective in anxiolytic therapy.

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anxietycatalytic subunitknockout miceprotein kinase Aregulatory subunit

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PMCPMC4925668
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