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ReviewBritish journal of pharmacology2019

NO as a multimodal transmitter in the brain: discovery and current status.

John Garthwaite

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Review in British journal of pharmacology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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50citing papers in PubMed
6.0field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

50 citing papers in PubMed, 98 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. CO and NO Coordinate Developmental Neuron Migration.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  11. Endothelial Function Biomarkers in Hypertension.Current medicinal chemistry · 2025
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  15. Electro-metabolic signaling.The Journal of general physiology · 2024
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  16. Hydrogen Sulfide (HBiomolecules · 2024
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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

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

John GarthwaiteWolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1970-8095
Wolfson Foundation · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NO operates throughout the brain as an intercellular messenger, initiating its varied physiological effects by activating specialized GC-coupled receptors, resulting in the formation of cGMP. In line with the widespread expression of this pathway, NO participates in numerous different brain functions. This review gives an account of the discovery of NO as a signalling molecule in the brain, experiments that originated in the search for a mysterious cGMP-stimulating factor released from central neurones when their NMDA receptors were stimulated, and summarizes the subsequent key steps that helped establish its status as a central transmitter. Currently, various modes of operation are viewed to underlie its diverse behaviour, ranging from very local signalling between synaptic partners (in the orthograde or retrograde directions) to a volume-type transmission whereby NO synthesized by multiple synchronous sources summate spatially and temporally to influence intermingled neuronal or non-neuronal cells, irrespective of anatomical connectivity. LINKED ARTICLES: This article is part of a themed section on Nitric Oxide 20 Years from the 1998 Nobel Prize. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v176.2/issuetoc.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainCyclic GMPHumansNeurotransmitter AgentsNitric OxideReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateCyclic GMPNeurotransmitter AgentsNitric OxideReceptors, N-Methyl-D-Aspartate

Identifiers

PMID30399649
PMCPMC6295412
OpenAlexW2900305755

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