Evidence map›Paper›PMID 30992383›Full record

ReviewLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2019

How can memories last for days, years, or a lifetime? Proposed mechanisms for maintaining synaptic potentiation and memory.

Paul Smolen, Douglas A Baxter, John H Byrne

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Review in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
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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

27 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Dual Regulation of Spine-Specific and Synapse-to-Nucleus Signaling by PKCδ during Plasticity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  20. A Synaptic Framework for the Persistence of Memory Engrams.Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience · 2021
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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

3 authors.

Paul SmolenDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, W. M. Keck Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, McGovern Medical School of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
Douglas A BaxterDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, W. M. Keck Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, McGovern Medical School of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
John H ByrneDepartment of Neurobiology and Anatomy, W. M. Keck Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, McGovern Medical School of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

Funding

NEURAL CONTROL OF BEHAVIORR01NS019895 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI BYRNE, JOHN H · 1985 to 2022
$8.3M
Modeling the Molecular Networks that Underlie the Formation and Consolidation of MemoryR01NS102490 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCI CTR HOUSTON · PI John H Byrne · 2018 to 2026
$3.6M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS019895NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102490
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With memory encoding reliant on persistent changes in the properties of synapses, a key question is how can memories be maintained from days to months or a lifetime given molecular turnover? It is likely that positive feedback loops are necessary to persistently maintain the strength of synapses that participate in encoding. Such feedback may occur within signal-transduction cascades and/or the regulation of translation, and it may occur within specific subcellular compartments or within neuronal networks. Not surprisingly, numerous positive feedback loops have been proposed. Some posited loops operate at the level of biochemical signal-transduction cascades, such as persistent activation of Ca

Indexed as

Feedback, PhysiologicalAnimalsBrainHumansLong-Term PotentiationMemory, Long-TermModels, NeurologicalNeuronsSignal TransductionSynapses

Identifiers

PMID30992383
PMCPMC6478248
OpenAlexW2921418426

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