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ReviewAdvances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.)2019

Caenorhabditis elegans and its applicability to studies on restless legs syndrome.

Pan Chen, Omamuyovwi Meashack Ijomone, Kun He Lee, Michael Aschner

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Review in Advances in pharmacology (San Diego, Calif.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 6% 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

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Putative Animal Models of Restless Legs Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Evaluation of Their Face and Construct Validity.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023
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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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Pan ChenDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States.
Omamuyovwi Meashack IjomoneDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States; Department of Human Anatomy, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Nigeria.
Kun He LeeDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States.
Michael AschnerDepartment of Molecular Pharmacology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, United States. Electronic address: michael.aschner@einstein.yu.edu.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine · USFederal University of Technology · NG

Funding

Mechanisms of Manganese NeurotoxicityR01ES010563 · NIEHS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Michael Aschner, Aaron B Bowman · 2001 to 2026
$11.9M
Mechanisms of Methylmercury Induced Neuron ToxicityR01ES007331 · NIEHS · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI Michael Aschner, Aaron B Bowman · 1996 to 2026
$10.6M
Genetic Modulation of MeHg-Induced Oxidative Stress in the Developing BrainR01ES020852 · NIEHS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI ASCHNER, MICHAEL · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
Genetic Susceptibility to Manganese NeurotoxicityR21ES025415 · NIEHS · ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC · PI ASCHNER, MICHAEL · 2016 to 2017
$459k
NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES007331NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES010563NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES020852NIEHS NIH HHS R21 ES025415
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a common neurological disorder in the United States. This disorder is characterized by an irresistible urge to move the legs, although the symptoms vary in a wide range. The pathobiology of RLS has been linked to iron (Fe) deficiency and dopaminergic (DAergic) dysfunction. Several genetic factors have been reported to increase the risk of RLS. Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) is a well-established animal model with a fully sequenced genome, which is highly conserved with mammals. Given the detailed knowledge of its genomic architecture, ease of genetic manipulation and conserved biosynthetic and metabolic pathways, as well as its small size, ease of maintenance, speedy generation time and large brood size, C. elegans provides numerous advantages in studying RLS-associated gene-environment interactions. Here we will review current knowledge about RLS symptoms, pathology and treatments, and discuss the application of C. elegans in RLS study, including the worm homologous genes and methods that could be performed to advance the pathophysiology RLS.

Indexed as

AnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsDopamineHumansIronNeuronsRestless Legs SyndromeCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsDopamineIronC. elegansDopaminergic dysfunctionIron deficiencyRestless legs syndromeRLS

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PMID31229169
PMCPMC6592618
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