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ReviewCell death & disease2019

A role for spinal cord hypoxia in neurodegeneration.

Elena Hernandez-Gerez, Ian N Fleming, Simon H Parson

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Review in Cell death & disease, 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
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  16. Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Approaches for Spinal Cord Injury.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elena Hernandez-GerezInstitute of Medical Sciences University of Aberdeen Foresterhill Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK.
Ian N FlemingInstitute of Medical Sciences University of Aberdeen Foresterhill Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK.
Simon H ParsonInstitute of Medical Sciences University of Aberdeen Foresterhill Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, Scotland, UK. simon.parson@abdn.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8848-8738
University of Aberdeen · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The vascular system of the spinal cord is particularly complex and vulnerable. Damage to the main vessels or alterations to the regulation of blood flow will result in a reduction or temporary cessation of blood supply. The resulting tissue hypoxia may be brief: acute, or long lasting: chronic. Damage to the vascular system of the spinal cord will develop after a traumatic event or as a result of pathology. Traumatic events such as road traffic accidents, serious falls and surgical procedures, including aortic cross-clamping, will lead to an immediate cessation of perfusion, the result of which may not be evident for several days, but may have long-term consequences including neurodegeneration. Pathological events such as arterial sclerosis, venous occlusion and spinal cord compression will result in a progressive reduction of blood flow, leading to chronic hypoxia. While in some situations the initial pathology is exclusively vascular, recent research in neurodegenerative disease has drawn attention to concomitant vascular anomalies in disorders, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, spinal muscular atrophy and muscular sclerosis. Understanding the role of, and tissue response to, chronic hypoxia is particularly important in these cases, where inherent neural damage exacerbates the vulnerability of the nervous system to stressors including hypoxia.

Indexed as

Regional Blood FlowHumansHypoxiaNeurodegenerative DiseasesSpinal CordSpinal Cord Injuries

Identifiers

PMID31723121
PMCPMC6853899
OpenAlexW2987981691

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