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ReviewFrontiers in neuroscience2018

Excitatory Dendritic Mitochondrial Calcium Toxicity: Implications for Parkinson's and Other Neurodegenerative Diseases.

Manish Verma, Zachary Wills, Charleen T Chu

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Review in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 55 papers.

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55citing papers in PubMed
4.1field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

55 citing papers in PubMed, 93 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Manish VermaDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Zachary WillsDepartment of Neurobiology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Charleen T ChuDepartment of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
University of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Regulation of Autophagy & Mitochondrial Recycling in Neuronal Cell Death- SupplementR01AG026389 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CHU, CHARLEEN T · 2007 to 2024
$6.0M
Dendrite regulation by the mitochondrial kinase PINK1: Implications for PD/LBD Diversity SupplementR01NS101628 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Charleen T Chu, Zachary P Wills · 2017 to 2026
$4.0M
PINK1 Regulation of Neuronal and Mitochondrial HomeostasisR01NS065789 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CHU, CHARLEEN T · 2011 to 2014
$1.3M
PINK1 Regulation of Neuronal and Mitochondrial HomeostasisR56NS065789 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CHU, CHARLEEN T · 2010 to 2016
$813k
Imaging Synapse Assembly in Hippocampal Circuit DevelopmentR21MH107966 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI WILLS, ZACHARY P · 2016 to 2017
$420k
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG026389NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH107966NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS065789NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS101628NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS065789
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dysregulation of calcium homeostasis has been linked to multiple neurological diseases. In addition to excitotoxic neuronal cell death observed following stroke, a growing number of studies implicate excess excitatory neuronal activity in chronic neurodegenerative diseases. Mitochondria function to rapidly sequester large influxes of cytosolic calcium through the activity of the mitochondrial calcium uniporter (MCU) complex, followed by more gradual release via calcium antiporters, such as NCLX. Increased cytosolic calcium levels almost invariably result in increased mitochondrial calcium uptake. While this response may augment mitochondrial respiration, limiting classic excitotoxic injury in the short term, recent studies employing live calcium imaging and molecular manipulation of calcium transporter activities suggest that mitochondrial calcium overload plays a key role in Parkinson's disease (PD), Alzheimer's disease (AD), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and related dementias [PD with dementia (PDD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD)]. Herein, we review the literature on increased excitatory input, mitochondrial calcium dysregulation, and the transcriptional or post-translational regulation of mitochondrial calcium transport proteins, with an emphasis on the PD-linked kinases

Indexed as

Alzheimer Diseasecalcium overloaddendrite degenerationFTD-ALSLRRK2mitochondrial calcium uniporterParkinson Disease/Lewy body dementiaPINK1

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PMID30116173
PMCPMC6083050
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