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ReviewClinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology2017

Wnt and GSK3 Signaling Pathways in Bipolar Disorder: Clinical and Therapeutic Implications.

Ather Muneer

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Review in Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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50citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
6.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

50 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 95 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. GSK-3β Allosteric Inhibition: A Dead End or a New Pharmacological Frontier?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ather MuneerDepartment of Psychiatry, Islamic International Medical College, Riphah International University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
Riphah International University · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neurobiology of bipolar disorder, a chronic and systemic ailment is not completely understood. The bipolar phenotype manifests in myriad ways, and psychopharmacological agents like lithium have long term beneficial effects. The enzyme glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK3) has come into focus, as lithium and several other mood stabilizing medications inhibit its activity. This kinase and its key upstream modulator, Wnt are dysregulated in mood disorders and there is a growing impetus to delineate the chief substrates involved in the development of these illnesses. In May 2016, a comprehensive literature search was undertaken which revealed that there is over activity of GSK3 in bipolar disorder with deleterious downstream effects like proinflammatory status, increased oxidative stress, and circadian dysregulation leading to declining neurotrophic support and enhanced apoptosis of neural elements. By developing specific GSK3 inhibitors the progressive worsening in bipolar disorder can be forestalled with improved prospects for the sufferers.

Indexed as

Bipolar disorderCanonical Wnt pathwayGlycogen synthase kinase 3Protein kinase BWntβ-catenin

Identifiers

PMID28449557
PMCPMC5426498
OpenAlexW2608855643

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