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ReviewActa physiologica (Oxford, England)2019

Investigating brain d-serine: Advocacy for good practices.

Jean-Pierre Mothet, Jean-Marie Billard, Loredano Pollegioni, Joseph T Coyle, Jonathan V Sweedler

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Review in Acta physiologica (Oxford, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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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

16 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Hydrogen sulfide/polysulfides signaling and neuronal diseases.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
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  4. Early involvement of D-serine in β-amyloid-dependent pathophysiology.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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  6. Hydrogen Sulfide (HBiomolecules · 2024
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  8. D-Amino Acids and Cancer: Friends or Foes?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  13. Potential and Realized Impact of Astroglia CaFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2021
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  15. Biosensors for D-Amino Acids: Detection Methods and Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jean-Pierre MothetTeam Gliotransmission & Synaptopathies, Centre de Recherche en Neurobiologie et Neurophysiologie de Marseille UMR7286 CNRS, Aix Marseille University, Marseille, France.ORCID 0000-0003-4991-0614
Jean-Marie BillardCOMETE U1075 INSERM-Unicaen, University of Caen Normandie, Caen, France.ORCID 0000-0002-8677-4415
Loredano PollegioniDipartimento di Biotecnologie e Scienze della Vita, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1733-7243
Joseph T CoyleDepartment of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.ORCID 0000-0002-0702-1395
Jonathan V SweedlerDepartment of Chemistry, The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois.ORCID 0000-0003-3107-9922

Funding

The UIUC Neuroproteomics Center on Cell-Cell SignalingP30DA018310 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI Elena V Romanova · 2004 to 2026
$24.9M
SUBCELLULAR CHARACTERIZATION OF NEUROTRANSMITTERSR01NS031609 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN · PI SWEEDLER, JONATHAN V. · 1998 to 2022
$6.2M
NIDA NIH HHS P30 DA018310NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS031609
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The last two decades have witnessed remarkable advance in our understanding the role of d-amino acids in the mammalian nervous system: from the unknown, to known molecules with unknown functions, to potential central players in health and disease. d-Amino acids have emerged as an important class of signaling molecules. In particular, the exploration of the roles of d-serine in brain physiopathology is a vibrant field that is growing at an accelerating pace. However, disentangling the functions of a chiral molecule in a complex chemical matrice as the brain requires specific measurement and detection methods but is also a challenging task as many molecular tools and models investigators are using can lead to confounded observations. Thus, study of d-amino acids demands accurate methodologies and specific controls, and these have often been lacking. Here we outline best practices for d-amino acid research, with a special emphasis on d-serine. We hope these concepts help move the field to greater rigor and reproducibility, allowing the field to advance.

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Amino AcidsAnimalsBrainHumansSerineSynaptic TransmissionAmino AcidsSerineanalytical methodsd-SerinegliaimmunostainingsneuronsNMDA receptorsrescue experimentsserine racemase inhibitors

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PMID30650253
PMCPMC6462235

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