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ReviewNeuroscience letters2021

New evidence for secondary axonal degeneration in demyelinating neuropathies.

Kathryn R Moss, Taylor S Bopp, Anna E Johnson, Ahmet Höke

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Review in Neuroscience letters, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.1field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Genes · 2025
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  3. Restless Legs Syndrome in Patients With PMP22-Related Neuropathies.Journal of the peripheral nervous system : JPNS · 2026
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  4. Junctions in Jeopardy: the neuromuscular junction is a selective pathological target in Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2026
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  5. Identification and Targeted Correction of a PathogenicInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  6. Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and related neuropathies.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2026
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  9. The Neuromuscular Junction: A Shared Vulnerability in Aging and Disease.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  18. Case report: A novel variant (H49N) inFrontiers in neurology · 2024
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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

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kathryn R MossDepartment of Neurology, Neuromuscular Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Taylor S BoppDepartment of Neurology, Neuromuscular Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Anna E JohnsonDepartment of Neurology, Neuromuscular Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Ahmet HökeDepartment of Neurology, Neuromuscular Division, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States. Electronic address: ahoke@jhmi.edu.
Johns Hopkins University · US

Funding

Mechanism of neuroprotection in chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathyR01NS091260 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI HOKE, AHMET · 2015 to 2019
$1.8M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS091260
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Development of peripheral nervous system (PNS) myelin involves a coordinated series of events between growing axons and the Schwann cell (SC) progenitors that will eventually ensheath them. Myelin sheaths have evolved out of necessity to maintain rapid impulse propagation while accounting for body space constraints. However, myelinating SCs perform additional critical functions that are required to preserve axonal integrity including mitigating energy consumption by establishing the nodal architecture, regulating axon caliber by organizing axonal cytoskeleton networks, providing trophic and potentially metabolic support, possibly supplying genetic translation materials and protecting axons from toxic insults. The intermediate steps between the loss of these functions and the initiation of axon degeneration are unknown but the importance of these processes provides insightful clues. Prevalent demyelinating diseases of the PNS include the inherited neuropathies Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease, Type 1 (CMT1) and Hereditary Neuropathy with Liability to Pressure Palsies (HNPP) and the inflammatory diseases Acute Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (AIDP) and Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy (CIDP). Secondary axon degeneration is a common feature of demyelinating neuropathies and this process is often correlated with clinical deficits and long-lasting disability in patients. There is abundant electrophysiological and histological evidence for secondary axon degeneration in patients and rodent models of PNS demyelinating diseases. Fully understanding the involvement of secondary axon degeneration in these diseases is essential for expanding our knowledge of disease pathogenesis and prognosis, which will be essential for developing novel therapeutic strategies.

Indexed as

AnimalsArthrogryposisAxonsCharcot-Marie-Tooth DiseaseDemyelinating DiseasesHereditary Sensory and Motor NeuropathyHumansNerve DegenerationPolyneuropathiesSchwann CellsAcute inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathyAIDPCharcot-Marie-Tooth diseaseChronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathyCIDPCMTCMT1ACMT1BCMT1CCMT1DCMT1ECMT1FCMT1XCx32DemyelinationEGR2GBSGJB1Guillain-Barré syndromeHereditaryHNPPLITAF/SIMPLEMPZMyelinNEFLNeuropathy with liability to pressure palsiesPeripheral neuropathyPMP22Secondary axon degeneration

Identifiers

PMID33359733
PMCPMC7852893
OpenAlexW3113935983

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