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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2018

Structural Changes Observed in the Piriform Cortex in a Rat Model of Pre-motor Parkinson's Disease.

Marco Sancandi, Emma Victoria Schul, Georgia Economides, Andrew Constanti, Audrey Mercer

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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14citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Marco SancandiUCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom.
Emma Victoria SchulUCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom.
Georgia EconomidesUCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom.
Andrew ConstantiUCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom.
Audrey MercerUCL School of Pharmacy, London, United Kingdom.
The London College · GBUniversity College London · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early diagnosis of Parkinson's disease (PD) offers perhaps, the most promising route to a successful clinical intervention, and the use of an animal model exhibiting symptoms comparable to those observed in PD patients in the early stage of the disease, may facilitate screening of novel therapies for delaying the onset of more debilitating motor and behavioral abnormalities. In this study, a rat model of pre-motor PD was used to study the etiology of hyposmia, a non-motor symptom linked to the early stage of the disease when the motor symptoms have yet to be experienced. The study focussed on determining the effect of a partial reduction of both dopamine and noradrenaline levels on the olfactory cortex. Neuroinflammation and striking structural changes were observed in the model. These changes were prevented by treatment with a neuroprotective drug, a glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP1) receptor agonist, exendin-4 (EX-4).

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early stage Parkinson’s diseaseexendin-4extracellular matrixGLP-1 agonistinterneuronsolfactionperineuronal nets

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PMID30618629
PMCPMC6296349
OpenAlexW2903585928

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