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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2017

Dopamine and the Brainstem Locomotor Networks: From Lamprey to Human.

Dimitri Ryczko, Réjean Dubuc

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
53citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 125 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Bioamine disruption leads to memory deficits in the whip spider, Phrynus marginemaculatus.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026
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  7. Behavioral, Endocrine, and Neuronal Responses to Odors in Lampreys.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025
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  14. Olfactory Projections to Locomotor Control Centers in the Sea Lamprey.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  15. The Mesencephalic Locomotor Region: Multiple Cell Types, Multiple Behavioral Roles, and Multiple Implications for Disease.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Dimitri RyczkoGroupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central, Département de Neurosciences, Université de MontréalMontréal, QC, Canada.
Réjean DubucGroupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central, Département de Neurosciences, Université de MontréalMontréal, QC, Canada.
Université de Montréal · CAUniversité du Québec à Montréal · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In vertebrates, dopamine neurons are classically known to modulate locomotion via their ascending projections to the basal ganglia that project to brainstem locomotor networks. An increased dopaminergic tone is associated with increase in locomotor activity. In pathological conditions where dopamine cells are lost, such as in Parkinson's disease, locomotor deficits are traditionally associated with the reduced ascending dopaminergic input to the basal ganglia. However, a descending dopaminergic pathway originating from the

Indexed as

brainstemconservationdopaminelocomotionmesencephalic locomotor regionParkinson's diseasepedunculopontine nucleussubstantia nigra pars compacta

Identifiers

PMID28603482
PMCPMC5445171
OpenAlexW2617763707

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