Evidence map›Paper›PMID 31666796›Full record

ArticleJournal of experimental neuroscience2019

Neurological Disease Modelling for Spinocerebellar Ataxia Using Zebrafish.

Kazuhiko Namikawa, Alessandro Dorigo, Reinhard W Köster

Open access · goldAbstract readComment
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of experimental neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 36% 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, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Review
  4. Review
  5. Review
  6. Development, circuitry, and function of the zebrafish cerebellum.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2023
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Review
  10. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kazuhiko NamikawaCellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2207-6028
Alessandro DorigoCellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
Reinhard W KösterCellular and Molecular Neurobiology, Zoological Institute, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6593-8196
Technische Universität Braunschweig · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cerebellum integrates sensory information and motor actions. Increasing experimental evidence has revealed that these functions as well as the cerebellar cytoarchitecture are highly conserved in zebrafish compared with mammals. However, the potential of zebrafish for modelling human cerebellar diseases remains to be addressed. Spinocerebellar ataxias (SCAs) represent a group of genetically inherited cerebellar diseases leading to motor discoordination that is most often caused by affected cerebellar Purkinje cells (PCs). Towards modelling SCAs in zebrafish we identified a small-sized PC-specific regulatory element that was used to develop coexpression vectors with tunable expression strength. These vectors allow for in vivo imaging of SCA-affected PCs by high-resolution fluorescence imaging. Next, zebrafish with SCA type 13 (SCA13) transgene expression were established, revealing that SCA13-induced cell-autonomous PC degeneration results in eye movement deficits. Thus, SCA13 zebrafish mimic the neuropathology of an SCA-affected brain as well as the involved loss of motor control and hence provide a powerful approach to unravel SCA13-induced cell biological pathogenic and cytotoxic mechanisms.

Indexed as

disease modellingneurodegenerationPurkinje neuronsspinocerebellar degenerationZebrafish

Identifiers

PMID31666796
PMCPMC6798160
OpenAlexW2980716924

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY-NC
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.