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ArticleJournal of systems and integrative neuroscience2016

"Pro-dopamine regulation (KB220Z™)" as a long-term therapeutic modality to overcome reduced resting state dopamine tone in opiate/opioid epidemic in America.

K Blum, F Marcelo, K Dushaj, L Fried, R D Badgaiyan

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Article in Journal of systems and integrative neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 37% of its field
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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

K BlumDepartment of Psychiatry & McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
F MarceloDepartment of Psychiatry & McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA.
K DushajDivision of Clinical Neurology, PATH Foundation NY, New York, NY, USA.
L FriedDivision of Neuroscience Research and Addiction Therapy, Shores Treatment & Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA.
R D BadgaiyanDepartment of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Molecular and Functional Imaging, University at Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Florida College · US

Funding

Dopamine Neurotransmission in Tourette SyndromeR01NS073884 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI BADGAIYAN, RAJENDRA D · 2012 to 2016
$2.2M
Imaging In Vivo Neural Mechanisms of Synthetic Cathinones (Bath Salts)R21DA038009 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA · PI FEBO, MARCELO · 2015 to 2016
$411k
Detection of Dopamine Release During a Cognitive TaskR21MH073624 · NIMH · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · PI BADGAIYAN, RAJENDRA D · 2005 to 2006
$368k
NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA038009NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH073624NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS073884
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since it is known that relapse, morality, and hospitalizations have been tied to the presence of the Dopamine D2 Receptor A1 allele, as one example, and carriers of this gene variant have a proclivity to favor amino-acid therapy, it seems intuitive that the incorporation of modalities to provide a balance and or restoration of hypodopaminergia should be considered as a front-line tactic to overcome the current American opiate/opioid epidemic, saving millions from death and unwanted locked-in-addiction. If we continue down the prim road path of fighting addiction to narcotics with narcotics, we are doomed to fail. This lesson can also have global interest.

Indexed as

dopamine homeostasisKB220Zopiate/opioid epidemicpro-dopamine regulatorresting sate dopamine tone

Identifiers

PMID28491463
PMCPMC5421552
OpenAlexW2562989345

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