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ArticleEBioMedicine2018

Locally Reducing KCC2 Activity in the Hippocampus is Sufficient to Induce Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.

Matt R Kelley, Ross A Cardarelli, Joshua L Smalley, Thomas A Ollerhead, Peter M Andrew, Nicholas J Brandon, Tarek Z Deeb, Stephen J Moss

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Article in EBioMedicine, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
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

30 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.

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  15. Discovery of Small Molecule KCC2 Potentiators Which AttenuateFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2022
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  17. Role of GPR39 in Neurovascular Homeostasis and Disease.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  18. Insights into Potential Targets for Therapeutic Intervention in Epilepsy.International journal of molecular sciences · 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Matt R KelleyDepartment of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Ross A CardarelliAstraZeneca-Tufts University Laboratory for Basic and Translational Neuroscience Research, Boston, MA, USA.
Joshua L SmalleyDepartment of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Thomas A OllerheadDepartment of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Peter M AndrewDepartment of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Nicholas J BrandonAstraZeneca-Tufts University Laboratory for Basic and Translational Neuroscience Research, Boston, MA, USA; Neuroscience, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Boston, MA, USA.
Tarek Z DeebDepartment of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; AstraZeneca-Tufts University Laboratory for Basic and Translational Neuroscience Research, Boston, MA, USA.
Stephen J MossDepartment of Neuroscience, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; AstraZeneca-Tufts University Laboratory for Basic and Translational Neuroscience Research, Boston, MA, USA; Neuroscience, IMED Biotech Unit, AstraZeneca, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Physiology and Pharmacology, University College, London, WC1E, 6BT, UK. Electronic address: Stephen.Moss@Tufts.edu.
Tufts University · USAstraZeneca (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy (mTLE) is the most common form of epilepsy, believed to arise in part from compromised GABAergic inhibition. The neuronal specific K

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AdultAnimalsDisease Models, AnimalEpilepsy, Temporal LobeFemalegamma-Aminobutyric AcidGenetic VectorsGenotypeHippocampusHumansK Cl- CotransportersMaleNeuronsSymportersgamma-Aminobutyric AcidK Cl- CotransportersSymportersEpilepsyGABAHippocampal sclerosisKCC2

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PMID29884458
PMCPMC6020795
OpenAlexW2805896625

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