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ArticleBrain communications2020

GABA

Shimian Qu, Mackenzie Catron, Chengwen Zhou, Vaishali Janve, Wangzhen Shen, Rachel K Howe, Robert L Macdonald

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Article in Brain communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.4field-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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. GABASynapse (New York, N.Y.) · 2026
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  9. Proteostasis regulation of GABABiomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2025
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  10. Clinical trials for Lennox-Gastaut syndrome: Challenges and priorities.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024
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  12. GABAInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  13. Heterozygous GABAEpilepsia · 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

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shimian QuDepartment of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Mackenzie CatronDepartment of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Chengwen ZhouDepartment of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Vaishali JanveDepartment of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Wangzhen ShenDepartment of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Rachel K HoweDepartment of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Robert L MacdonaldDepartment of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37232, USA.
Vanderbilt University Medical Center · USVanderbilt University · US

Funding

RECOMBINANT/NATIVE GABAA RECEPTORSR01NS033300 · NINDS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI MACDONALD, ROBERT LOUDEN · 1995 to 2016
$5.0M
Subcortical Nodes Within Epileptic Network Control the Cortical Disfacilitation to Prompt Seizure Onset in IGE Mouse ModelR01NS107424 · NINDS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI ZHOU, CHENGWEN · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
Impaired homeostatic potentiation of GABAergic currents initiates seizuresR21NS096483 · NINDS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI GALLAGHER, MARTIN J, MACDONALD, ROBERT LOUDEN · 2016 to 2017
$435k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS033300NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS107424NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS096483
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Lennox-Gastaut syndrome is a devastating early-onset epileptic encephalopathy, associated with severe behavioural abnormalities. Its pathophysiology, however, is largely unknown. A

Indexed as

early-onset epileptic encephalopathyGABRB3genetic epilepsiesLennox–Gastaut syndromeseizures

Identifiers

PMID32467926
PMCPMC7238755
OpenAlexW3010737802

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Registered trials

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