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ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2021

PAK1 Positively Regulates Oligodendrocyte Morphology and Myelination.

Tanya L Brown, Hirokazu Hashimoto, Lisbet T Finseth, Teresa L Wood, Wendy B Macklin

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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24citing papers in PubMed
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Tanya L BrownDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology and.
Hirokazu HashimotoDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology and.
Lisbet T FinsethDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology and.ORCID 0000-0001-6128-1828
Teresa L WoodDepartment of Pharmacology, Physiology, and Neuroscience, New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 07101.
Wendy B MacklinDepartment of Cell and Developmental Biology and wendy.macklin@ucdenver.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1252-0607
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · USWeber State University · US

Funding

The role of mTOR signaling in oligodendrocyte differentiation and CNS myelinationR37NS082203 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI MACKLIN, WENDY B, WOOD, TERESA L · 2017 to 2023
$6.0M
The role of mTOR signaling in oligodendrocyte differentiation and CNS myelinationR01NS082203 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI MACKLIN, WENDY B, WOOD, TERESA L · 2012 to 2016
$3.3M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS082203NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS082203
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The actin cytoskeleton is crucial for oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination. Here we show that p21-activated kinase 1 (PAK1), a well-known actin regulator, promotes oligodendrocyte morphologic change and myelin production in the CNS. A combination of

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AnimalsCell DifferentiationFemaleMaleMiceMyelin SheathNeurogenesisOligodendrogliap21-Activated KinasesRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyZebrafishp21-Activated KinasesactincytoskeletonmyelinoligodendrocytePAK1

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PMID33478987
PMCPMC7939082
OpenAlexW3124725803

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