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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2018

Limitations and Challenges in Modeling Diseases Involving Spinal Motor Neuron Degeneration

Monica Bucchia, Samantha J Merwin, Diane B Re, Shingo Kariya

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 30 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 1 institution in 1 country.

Monica BucchiaDepartment of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States.
Samantha J MerwinDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States.
Diane B ReDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States.
Shingo KariyaDepartment of Neurology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, United States.
Columbia University Irving Medical Center · US

Funding

Toward Understanding Aging Mechanisms of Neuromuscular JunctionsR21AG052011 · NIA · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI RE, DIANE BERENGERE · 2016 to 2017
$440k
NIA NIH HHS R21 AG052011
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pathogenic conditions involving degeneration of spinal motor neurons (MNs), such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sarcopenia, and spinal cord injury, mostly occur in individuals whose spinal MNs are fully mature. There is currently no effective treatment to prevent death or promote axonal regeneration of the spinal MNs affected in these patients. To increase our understanding and find a cure for such conditions, easily controllable and monitorable cell culture models allow for a better dissection of certain molecular and cellular events that cannot be teased apart in whole organism models. To date, various types of spinal MN cultures have been described. Yet these models are all based on the use of immature neurons or neurons uncharacterized for their degree of maturity after being isolated and cultured. Additionally, studying only MNs cannot give a comprehensive and complete view of the neurodegenerative processes usually involving other cell types. To date, there is no confirmed

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adult spinal cordamyotrophic lateral sclerosismaturationmotor neuron cultureneuromuscular junctionsarcopeniaspinal cord injuryspinal motor neuron

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PMCPMC5845677
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