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ReviewCells2021

The Metabolic Stability of the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor at the Neuromuscular Junction.

Isabel Martinez-Pena Y Valenzuela, Mohammed Akaaboune

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In one paragraph

Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
26citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% 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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Postsynaptic Complexin Mediates Constitutive Exocytosis of Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  3. 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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  15. Aberrant evoked calcium signaling and nAChR cluster morphology in aFrontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2024
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  19. Role of complement in myasthenia gravis.Frontiers in neurology · 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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Isabel Martinez-Pena Y ValenzuelaDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Mohammed AkaabouneDepartment of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-1991-0963
University of Michigan · US

Funding

The Dynamics of Synaptic Component at the Neuromuscular Junction of Living AnimalR01NS047332 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI AKAABOUNE, MOHAMMED · 2003 to 2013
$2.7M
The effect of muscle-specific anchoring protein on the biology of the Neuromuscular systemR01NS111041 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI AKAABOUNE, MOHAMMED · 2019 to 2024
$2.1M
Acetylcholine Receptor Stability at the Neuromuscular SystemR56NS103845 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI AKAABOUNE, MOHAMMED · 2018 to 2018
$532k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS047332NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS111041NINDS NIH HHS R56 NS103845
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The clustering and maintenance of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (AChRs) at high density in the postsynaptic membrane is a hallmark of the mammalian neuromuscular junction (NMJ). The regulation of receptor density/turnover rate at synapses is one of the main thrusts of neurobiology because it plays an important role in synaptic development and synaptic plasticity. The state-of-the-art imaging revealed that AChRs are highly dynamic despite the overall structural stability of the NMJ over the lifetime of the animal. This review highlights the work on the metabolic stability of AChRs at developing and mature NMJs and discusses the role of synaptic activity and the regulatory signaling pathways involved in the dynamics of AChRs.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansModels, BiologicalNeuromuscular JunctionProtein StabilityReceptors, NicotinicSignal TransductionSynapsesReceptors, NicotinicAChRdegradationdenervationendocytosismetabolic stabilityrecyclingsynaptic activity

Identifiers

PMID33572348
PMCPMC7916148
OpenAlexW3127498809

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