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ReviewPharmacological reports : PR2021

The role of brain gaseous neurotransmitters in anxiety.

Artur Pałasz, Itiana Castro Menezes, John J Worthington

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Review in Pharmacological reports : PR, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
16citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 17% 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

16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 35 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. HAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  3. Role of Nitric Oxide in the Antidepressant Effect of an Aqueous Extract ofInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  5. Carbon Monoxide in an Experimental Model of Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome: The Effects of CORM-A1 on Pain and Anxiety-Related Behaviors.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2025
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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

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Artur PałaszDepartment of Histology, School of Medical Sciences in Katowice, Medical University of Silesia, ul. Medyków 18, 40-752, Katowice, Poland. apalasz@sum.edu.pl.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2632-1211
Itiana Castro MenezesDepartment of Neurosciences and Behavior, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Av. Bandeirantes 3900, Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, 14049-900, Brazil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1641-9255
John J WorthingtonDivision of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1429-5669
Lancaster University · GBMedical University of Silesia · PLUniversidade de São Paulo · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although anxiety is perhaps one of the most significant current medical and social problems, the neurochemical mechanistic background of this common condition remains to be fully understood. Multifunctional regulatory gasotransmitters are novel, atypical inorganic factors of the brain that are involved in the mechanisms of anxiety responses. Nitric oxide (NO) signaling shows ambiguous action in animal models of anxiety, while NO donors exert anxiogenic or anxiolytic effect depending on their chemical structure, dose, treatment schedule and gas release rapidity. The majority of NO synthase inhibitors act as a relatively potent axiolytic agents, while hydrogen sulfide (H

Indexed as

AnimalsAnxietyAnxiety DisordersBrainCarbon MonoxideGasotransmittersHumansHydrogen SulfideNitric OxideSignal TransductionSynaptic TransmissionCarbon MonoxideGasotransmittersHydrogen SulfideNitric OxideAnxietyCarbon monoxideHydrogen sulfideNitric oxide

Identifiers

PMID33713315
PMCPMC7994231
OpenAlexW3135123091

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