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ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience2020

Myelin plasticity: sculpting circuits in learning and memory.

Wendy Xin, Jonah R Chan

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Review in Nature reviews. Neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 180 papers, 2 of them syntheses that 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

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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

180 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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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

2 authors.

Wendy XinWeill Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. wen.xin@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1425-834X
Jonah R ChanWeill Institute for Neuroscience, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA. jonah.chan@ucsf.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2176-1242

Funding

Functional Screening of GPCR Small Molecule Libraries for Remyelination TherapiesR01NS095889 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHAN, JONAH R · 2016 to 2020
$1.9M
Somatodendritic Inhibition of Oligodendrocyte MyelinationR01NS097428 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI CHAN, JONAH R, PELES, ELIOR · 2016 to 2020
$1.5M
Regulation of structural and functional neuronal plasticity by myelinationF32NS116214 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI XIN, WEN · 2020 to 2021
$164k
NINDS NIH HHS F32 NS116214NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS095889NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS097428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Throughout our lifespan, new sensory experiences and learning continually shape our neuronal circuits to form new memories. Plasticity at the level of synapses has been recognized and studied for decades, but recent work has revealed an additional form of plasticity - affecting oligodendrocytes and the myelin sheaths they produce - that plays a crucial role in learning and memory. In this Review, we summarize recent work characterizing plasticity in the oligodendrocyte lineage following sensory experience and learning, the physiological and behavioural consequences of manipulating that plasticity, and the evidence for oligodendrocyte and myelin dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders with cognitive symptoms. We also discuss the limitations of existing approaches and the conceptual and technical advances that are needed to move forward this rapidly developing field.

Indexed as

AnimalsDemyelinating DiseasesHumansLearningMemoryMyelin SheathNeuronal PlasticityOligodendrogliaSynapses

Identifiers

PMID33046886
PMCPMC8018611

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