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ReviewCNS neuroscience & therapeutics2018

Potassium channel dysfunction in neurons and astrocytes in Huntington's disease.

Xiao Zhang, Jie-Qing Wan, Xiao-Ping Tong

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Review in CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Pain in Huntington's disease and its potential mechanisms.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023
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  18. Astrocytes in Neuropathologies Affecting the Frontal Cortex.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2019
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  20. Huntington's disease: From basic science to therapeutics.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xiao ZhangDiscipline of Neuroscience and Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Jie-Qing WanDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Xiao-Ping TongDiscipline of Neuroscience and Department of Anatomy and Physiology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0908-8091
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Huntington's disease (HD) is a late-onset fatal neurodegenerative disease, characterized by progressive movement disorders, psychiatric symptoms, and cognitive impairment. The cytosine-adenine-guanine (CAG) triplet expansion encoding glutamine present in the protein huntingtin (Htt), produces widespread neuronal and glial pathology. Mutant huntingtin (mHtt) nuclear aggregates are the primary cause of cortical and striatal neuron degeneration, neuronal inflammation, apoptosis and eventual cell loss. The precise mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration in HD remain poorly understood and HD patients have no current cure. Potassium channels are widely expressed in most cell types. In neurons, they play a crucial role in setting the resting membrane potential, mediating the rapid repolarization phase of the action potential and controlling sub-threshold oscillations of membrane potentials. In glial cells, their major contributions are maintaining the resting membrane potential and buffering extracellular K

Indexed as

AnimalsAstrocytesHumansHuntington DiseaseNeuronsPotassium ChannelsPotassium ChannelsastrocytesexcitotoxicityHuntington's diseaseneurodegenerationpotassium channels

Identifiers

PMID29377621
PMCPMC6489745
OpenAlexW2794357849

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