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ReviewJournal of Huntington's disease2016

Dysregulation of Corticostriatal Connectivity in Huntington's Disease: A Role for Dopamine Modulation.

Claudia Rangel-Barajas, George V Rebec

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Review in Journal of Huntington's disease, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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23citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Mild cognitive impairment in Huntington's disease: challenges and outlooks.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2024
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  8. Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Repeat Expansion Diseases.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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  18. Mutant huntingtin disrupts mitochondrial proteostasis by interacting with TIM23.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  19. Roles of the MMovement disorders : official journal of the Movement Disorder Society · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Claudia Rangel-Barajas
George V Rebec
Indiana University Bloomington · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aberrant communication between striatum, the main information processing unit of the basal ganglia, and cerebral cortex plays a critical role in the emergence of Huntington's disease (HD), a fatal monogenetic condition that typically strikes in the prime of life. Although both striatum and cortex undergo substantial cell loss over the course of HD, corticostriatal circuits become dysfunctional long before neurons die. Understanding the dysfunction is key to developing effective strategies for treating a progressively worsening triad of motor, cognitive, and psychiatric symptoms. Cortical output neurons drive striatal activity through the release of glutamate, an excitatory amino acid. Striatal outputs, in turn, release γ-amino butyric acid (GABA) and exert inhibitory control over downstream basal ganglia targets. Ample evidence from transgenic rodent models points to dysregulation of corticostriatal glutamate transmission along with corresponding changes in striatal GABA release as underlying factors in the HD behavioral phenotype. Another contributor is dysregulation of dopamine (DA), a modulator of both glutamate and GABA transmission. In fact, pharmacological manipulation of DA is the only currently available treatment for HD symptoms. Here, we review data from animal models and human patients to evaluate the role of DA in HD, including DA interactions with glutamate and GABA within the context of dysfunctional corticostriatal circuitry.

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AnimalsCerebral CortexCorpus StriatumHumansHuntington DiseaseNeural Pathwaysbasal gangliacerebral cortexcorticostriatal pathwaydopamineGABAglutamateHuntington’s diseasestriatum

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PMID27983564
PMCPMC5181679
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