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ReviewNeuroscience letters2019

Design principles of electrical synaptic plasticity.

John O'Brien

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Review in Neuroscience letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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25citing papers in PubMed
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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

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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  13. The Roles of Calmodulin and CaMKII in Cx36 Plasticity.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  18. Network Architecture of Gap Junctional Coupling among Parallel Processing Channels in the Mammalian Retina.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020
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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

1 author.

John O'BrienMcGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, 6431 Fannin St., MSB 7.024, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Electronic address: John.OBrien@uth.tmc.edu.

Funding

REGULATION OF RETINAL GAP JUNCTIONSR01EY012857 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI JOHN O'BRIEN · 2000 to 2026
$8.3M
UTHouston Core Center for Vision ResearchP30EY028102 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI MASSEY, STEPHEN C · 2017 to 2021
$3.1M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY028102NEI NIH HHS R01 EY012857
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Essentially all animals with nervous systems utilize electrical synapses as a core element of communication. Electrical synapses, formed by gap junctions between neurons, provide rapid, bidirectional communication that accomplishes tasks distinct from and complementary to chemical synapses. These include coordination of neuron activity, suppression of voltage noise, establishment of electrical pathways that define circuits, and modulation of high order network behavior. In keeping with the omnipresent demand to alter neural network function in order to respond to environmental cues and perform tasks, electrical synapses exhibit extensive plasticity. In some networks, this plasticity can have dramatic effects that completely remodel circuits or remove the influence of certain cell types from networks. Electrical synaptic plasticity occurs on three distinct time scales, ranging from milliseconds to days, with different mechanisms accounting for each. This essay highlights principles that dictate the properties of electrical coupling within networks and the plasticity of the electrical synapses, drawing examples extensively from retinal networks.

Indexed as

AnimalsElectrical SynapsesGap JunctionsHumansNeural PathwaysNeuronal PlasticityNeuronsSignal TransductionSynaptic TransmissionCircadian rhythmConnexinElectrical synapsePhosphatasePhosphorylation

Identifiers

PMID28893590
PMCPMC5843509

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