Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33455808›Full record

ArticleUltrasound in medicine & biology2021

High-Resolution Focused Ultrasound Neuromodulation Induces Limb-Specific Motor Responses in Mice in Vivo.

Christian Aurup, Hermes A S Kamimura, Elisa E Konofagou

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Ultrasound in medicine & biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
18citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% 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, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Ultrasound Modulation of Visual Circuits in Mice Independent of Auditory Confound.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
  10. Article
  11. Article
  12. A Miniature Ultrasound Source for Neural Modulation.IEEE transactions on ultrasonics, ferroelectrics, and frequency control · 2023
    Article
  13. Article
  14. Article
  15. Article
  16. The mechanosensitive ion channel Piezo1 contributes to ultrasound neuromodulation.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
    Article
  17. Article
  18. Article
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.

Christian AurupDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Hermes A S KamimuraDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.
Elisa E KonofagouDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; Department of Radiology, Columbia University, New York, New York. Electronic address: ek2191@columbia.edu.
Columbia University · US

Funding

Mechanistic Monitoring of Ultrasound NeuromodulationR01EB027576 · NIBIB · COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI KONOFAGOU, ELISA E. · 2019 to 2022
$2.5M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB027576
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ultrasound can modulate activity in the central nervous system, including the induction of motor responses in rodents. Recent studies investigating ultrasound-induced motor movements have described mostly bilateral limb responses, but quantitative evaluations have failed to reveal lateralization or differences in response characteristics between separate limbs or how specific brain targets dictate distinct limb responses. This study uses high-resolution focused ultrasound (FUS) to elicit motor responses in anesthetized mice in vivo and four-limb electromyography (EMG) to evaluate the latency, duration and power of paired motor responses (n = 1768). The results indicate that FUS generates target-specific differences in electromyographic characteristics and that brain targets separated by as little as 1 mm can modulate the responses in individual limbs differentially. Exploiting these differences may provide a tool for quantifying the susceptibility of underlying neural volumes to FUS, understanding the functioning of the targeted neuroanatomy and aiding in mechanistic studies of this non-invasive neuromodulation technique.

Indexed as

Ultrasonic WavesAcoustic StimulationAnimalsBrainElectromyographyForelimbHindlimbMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMovementMuscle, SkeletalReaction TimeBrain stimulationFocused ultrasoundLocomotionMotor responseNeuromodulation

Identifiers

PMID33455808
PMCPMC7927571
OpenAlexW3119046202

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceTDM
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.