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ReviewCurrent opinion in neurobiology2019

Recent advances in neuroepigenetic editing.

Song-Jun Xu, Elizabeth A Heller

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Review in Current opinion in neurobiology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Epigenetic regulation of brain development, plasticity, and response to early-life stress.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  7. From Circuits to Chromatin: The Emerging Role of Epigenetics in Mental Health.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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  9. Genetic and epigenetic editing in
nervous system
.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2019
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Song-Jun XuDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Elizabeth A HellerDepartment of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics and Penn Epigenetics Institute, Perelman School of Medicine, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Electronic address: eheller@pennmedicine.upenn.edu.
Translational Therapeutics (United States) · US

Funding

Epigenetic mechanisms of sustained transcription across cocaine abstinenceR01DA052465 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Elizabeth A Heller · 2021 to 2026
$4.0M
Chromatin-mediated alternative splicing in reward pathophysiologyDP1DA044250 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI HELLER, ELIZABETH A · 2017 to 2021
$2.6M
NIDA NIH HHS DP1 DA044250NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA052465
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A wealth of studies in the mammalian nervous system indicate the role of epigenetic gene regulation in both basic neurobiological function and disease. However, the relationship between epigenetic regulation and neuropathology is largely correlational due to the presence of mixed cell populations within brain regions and the genome-wide effects of classical approaches to manipulate the epigenome. Locus-specific epigenetic editing allows direct epigenetic regulation of specific genes to elucidate the direct causal relationship between epigenetic modifications and transcription. This review discusses some of the latest innovations in the efficacy and flexibility in this approach that hold promise for neurobiological application.

Indexed as

Gene EditingNervous System DiseasesAnimalsEpigenesis, GeneticGene Expression RegulationGenome

Identifiers

PMID31015104
PMCPMC12826455
OpenAlexW2947829439

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