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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2019

The roles of perineuronal nets and the perinodal extracellular matrix in neuronal function.

James W Fawcett, Toshitaka Oohashi, Tommaso Pizzorusso

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 364 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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364citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

364 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 571 citations in OpenAlex.

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  14. The Role of Meprins on the Brain Extracellular Matrix and Perineuronal Nets.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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304 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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 at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

James W FawcettJohn van Geest Centre for Brain Repair, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. jf108@cam.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7990-4568
Toshitaka OohashiDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9302-1913
Tommaso PizzorussoDepartment of Neuroscience, Psychology, Drug Research, and Child Health (NEUROFARBA), University of Florence, Florence, Italy.
National Research Council · ITOkayama University · JPUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/R004463/1Medical Research Council MR/R004544/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Perineuronal nets (PNNs) are extracellular matrix (ECM) chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG)-containing structures that surround the soma and dendrites of various mammalian neuronal cell types. PNNs appear during development around the time that the critical periods for developmental plasticity end and are important for both their onset and closure. A similar structure - the perinodal ECM - surrounds the axonal nodes of Ranvier and appears as myelination is completed, acting as an ion-diffusion barrier that affects axonal conduction speed. Recent work has revealed the importance of PNNs in controlling plasticity in the CNS. Digestion, blocking or removal of PNNs influences functional recovery after a variety of CNS lesions. PNNs have further been shown to be involved in the regulation of memory and have been implicated in a number of psychiatric disorders.

Indexed as

AnimalsCentral Nervous System DiseasesExtracellular MatrixHumansMemoryMental DisordersModels, NeurologicalNeuronal PlasticityNeurons

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PMID31263252
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