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ReviewCNS neuroscience & therapeutics2018

Corticostriatal network dysfunction in Huntington's disease: Deficits in neural processing, glutamate transport, and ascorbate release.

George V Rebec

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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 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
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  3. HSF1 and Its Role in Huntington's Disease Pathology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023
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  6. Dysregulation of the Basal Ganglia Indirect Pathway in Early SymptomaticThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  13. Cell-Autonomous and Non-cell-Autonomous Pathogenic Mechanisms in Huntington's Disease: Insights from In Vitro and In Vivo Models.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2019
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  14. The TinyInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2018
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  16. Huntington's disease: From basic science to therapeutics.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

George V RebecProgram in Neuroscience, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4790-7796
Indiana University Bloomington · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsThis review summarizes evidence for dysfunctional connectivity between cortical and striatal neurons in Huntington's disease (HD), a fatal neurodegenerative condition caused by a single gene mutation. The focus is on data derived from recording of electrophysiological signals in behaving transgenic mouse models. DISCUSSIONS: Firing patterns of individual neurons and the frequency oscillations of local field potentials indicate a disruption in corticostriatal processing driven, in large part, by interactions between cells that contain the mutant gene rather than the mutant gene alone. Dysregulation of glutamate, an excitatory amino acid released by cortical afferents, plays a key role in the breakdown of corticostriatal communication, a process modulated by ascorbate, an antioxidant vitamin found in high concentration in striatum. Up-regulation of glutamate transport by drug administration or viral-vector delivery improves ascorbate homeostasis and neurobehavioral processing in HD mice. Further analysis of electrophysiological data, including the use of sophisticated computational strategies, is required to discern how behavioral demands modulate the flow of corticostriatal information and its disruption by HD.

conclusionsLong before massive cell loss occurs, HD impairs the mechanisms by which cortical and striatal neurons communicate. A key problem identified in transgenic animal models is dysregulation of the dynamic changes in extracellular glutamate and ascorbate. Improved understanding of how these neurochemical systems impact corticostriatal communication is necessary before an effective therapeutic strategy can emerge.

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AnimalsAscorbic AcidGlutamic AcidHumansHuntington DiseaseNeural PathwaysNeuronsAscorbic AcidGlutamic Acidascorbate releasebehavioral electrophysiologycorticostriatal circuitfunctional connectivityglutamate transportHuntington's disease

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PMID29464896
PMCPMC6489880
OpenAlexW2789269576

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