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ReviewPflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology2018

Chromaffin cells as a model to evaluate mechanisms of cell death and neuroprotective compounds.

Cristobal de Los Rios, Maria F Cano-Abad, Mercedes Villarroya, Manuela G López

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Review in Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 39% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Cristobal de Los RiosInstituto Teófilo Hernando, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Maria F Cano-AbadInstituto Teófilo Hernando, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Mercedes VillarroyaInstituto Teófilo Hernando, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Manuela G LópezInstituto Teófilo Hernando, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. manuela.garcia@uam.es.
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · ESHospital Universitario de La Princesa · ES

Funding

Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ES) PI16/01041Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad SAF2015-63935R
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this review, we show how chromaffin cells have contributed to evaluate neuroprotective compounds with diverse mechanisms of action. Chromaffin cells are considered paraneurons, as they share many common features with neurons: (i) they synthesize, store, and release neurotransmitters upon stimulation and (ii) they express voltage-dependent calcium, sodium, and potassium channels, in addition to a wide variety of receptors. All these characteristics, together with the fact that primary cultures from bovine adrenal glands or chromaffin cells from the tumor pheochromocytoma cell line PC12 are easy to culture, make them an ideal model to study neurotoxic mechanisms and neuroprotective drugs. In the first part of this review, we will analyze the different cytotoxicity models related to calcium dyshomeostasis and neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. Along the second part of the review, we describe how different classes of drugs have been evaluated in chromaffin cells to determine their neuroprotective profile in different neurodegenerative-related models.

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Cell DeathAnimalsCalciumChromaffin CellsDrug Evaluation, PreclinicalHumansNeuroprotective AgentsToxicity TestsCalciumNeuroprotective AgentsCalciumCell deathChromaffin cellsNeuroprotectionPC12 cells

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PMID28823085
OpenAlexW2747715736

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