Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30861131›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of comparative neurology2019

Absence of axonal sprouting following unilateral lesion in 125-day-old rat supraoptic nucleus may be due to age-dependent decrease in protein levels of ciliary neurotrophic factor receptor alpha.

Jason M Askvig, John A Watt

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in The Journal of comparative neurology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
6citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 44% 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

6 citing papers in PubMed, 8 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
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

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Jason M AskvigDepartment of Biology, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota.ORCID 0000-0002-3780-6150
John A WattDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Concordia College - Minnesota · USUniversity of North Dakota · US

Funding

TRPC1, CALCIUM AND PARKINSON'S DISEASEP20RR017699 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA · PI GHRIBI, OTHMAN · 2002 to 2011
$19.7M
Pilot Projects CoreP30GM103329 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA · PI GEIGER, JONATHAN DAVID · 2012 to 2016
$5.1M
NCRR NIH HHS P20 RR017699NIGMS NIH HHS P30 GM103329
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Within the supraoptic nucleus (SON) of a 35-day-old rat, we previously demonstrated a collateral sprouting response that reinnervates the partially denervated neural lobe (NL) after unilateral lesion of the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial tract. Others have shown a decreased propensity for axonal sprouting in an aged brain; therefore, to see if the SON exhibits a decreased propensity for axonal sprouting as the animal ages, we performed a unilateral lesion in the 125-day-old rat SON. Ultrastructural analysis of axon profiles in the NL of the 125-day-old rat demonstrated an absence of axonal sprouting following injury. We previously demonstrated that ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) promotes process outgrowth from injured magnocellular neuron axons in vitro. Thus, we hypothesized that the lack of axonal sprouting in the 125-day-old rat SON may be due to a reduction in CNTF or the CNTF receptor components. To this point, we found that as the rat ages there is significantly less CNTF receptor alpha (CNTFRα) protein in the uninjured, 125-day-old rat compared to the uninjured, 35-day-old rat. We also observed that protein levels of CNTF and the CNTF receptor components were increased in the SON and NL following injury in the 35-day-old rat, but there was no difference in the protein levels in the 125-day-old rat. Altogether, the results presented herein demonstrate that the plasticity within the SON is highly dependent on the age of the rat, and that a decrease in CNTFRα protein levels in the 125-day-old rat may contribute to the loss of axonal sprouting following axotomy.

Indexed as

AgingAnimalsAxonsAxotomyCiliary Neurotrophic Factor Receptor alpha SubunitMaleNeural PathwaysRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySupraoptic NucleusCiliary Neurotrophic Factor Receptor alpha Subunitagingaxonal sproutingCNTFCNTFRαneural lobeRRID:AB_2136105RRID:AB_2276485RRID:AB_397120RRID:AB_476697RRID:AB_518526RRID:AB_518680RRID:AB_631590supraoptic nucleus

Identifiers

PMID30861131
PMCPMC6656591
OpenAlexW2922007113

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.