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ArticleCommunicative & integrative biology2018

Anesthetics disrupt brain development via actions on the mTOR pathway.

Jing Xu, Eunchai Kang, C David Mintz

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Article in Communicative & integrative biology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10citing papers in PubMed
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jing XuDepartment of Anesthesiology, Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University School of Medicine, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
Eunchai KangDepartment of Neuroscience and Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences, Perelman School for Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
C David MintzDepartment of Anesthesiology, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of Pennsylvania · US

Funding

Program in Postdoctoral Research Training in AnesthesiologyT32GM075774 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SAPNA R KUDCHADKAR, Emmett E Whitaker · 2006 to 2026
$8.1M
Mechanisms of Developmental Anesthesia ToxicityR01GM120519 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MINTZ, CYRUS DAVID · 2016 to 2020
$2.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120519NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM075774
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Experiments conducted in non-human primates have recently provided new evidence supporting a longstanding concern that exposure to general anesthesia during late intrauterine life or early childhood can cause lasting cognitive deficits through harmful effects on brain development. The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling system plays a key role in both normal brain development and in a wide range of developmental disorders that are characterized by cognitive deficits. Intriguingly, our recently published work shows that anesthetics can chronically alter mTOR signaling in the hippocampal dentate gyrus and that normalization of mTOR signaling can prevent anesthesia-induced perturbation of structure and function. In this addendum, we briefly discuss the putative role of mTOR in developmental anesthetic neurotoxicity.

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anesthesiacell signalingmTORneurogenesisneurotoxicity

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PMID30083288
PMCPMC6067894
OpenAlexW2792040686

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