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ArticleMolecular pharmacology2018

Gabapentin Is a Potent Activator of KCNQ3 and KCNQ5 Potassium Channels.

Rían W Manville, Geoffrey W Abbott

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Article in Molecular pharmacology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
36citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

36 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 62 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Voltage-sensor conformational microenvironments encode isoform-selective ion channel activation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  7. Phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate activation mechanism of human KCNQ5.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  12. A Role for KCNQ Channels on Cell Type-Specific Plasticity in Mouse Auditory Cortex after Peripheral Damage.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  16. KCNQ Potassium Channels as Targets of Botanical Folk Medicines.Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology · 2022
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  19. Chemical modulation of Kv7 potassium channels.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2021
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rían W ManvilleBioelectricity Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California.
Geoffrey W AbbottBioelectricity Laboratory, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, California abbottg@uci.edu.
University of California, Irvine · US

Funding

Ion channel-transporter interactionsR01GM115189 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI ABBOTT, GEOFFREY W · 2015 to 2018
$1.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM115189
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synthetic gabapentinoids, exemplified by gapapentin and pregabalin, are in extensive clinical use for indications including epilepsy, neuropathic pain, anxiety, and alcohol withdrawal. Their mechanisms of action are incompletely understood, but are thought to involve inhibition of

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAnalgesicsAnimalsAnti-Anxiety AgentsAnticonvulsantsEpilepsyGabapentinHumansKCNQ Potassium ChannelsNeuronsPotassium Channels, Voltage-GatedXenopus laevisAnalgesicsAnti-Anxiety AgentsAnticonvulsantsGabapentinKCNQ Potassium ChannelsPotassium Channels, Voltage-Gated

Identifiers

PMID30021858
PMCPMC6108572
OpenAlexW2883140356

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Registered trials

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