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ArticleScientific reports2021

Basmisanil, a highly selective GABA

Joerg F Hipp, Frederic Knoflach, Robert Comley, Theresa M Ballard, Michael Honer, Gerhard Trube, Rodolfo Gasser, Eric Prinssen, Tanya L Wallace, Andreas Rothfuss and 10 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
29citing papers in PubMed
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% 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

29 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. RO4938581, a GABAMolecular psychiatry · 2026
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  9. Negative allosteric modulation of α5-GABAbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  10. GABAFrontiers in pharmacology · 2026
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  11. Direct modulation of human GABA-A αFrontiers in neuroscience · 2026
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  13. Biological psychiatry global open science · 2025
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  20. Basmisanil, an α5-GABANeuroscience letters · 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

20 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Joerg F HippNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Frederic KnoflachNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Robert ComleyNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Theresa M BallardNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Michael HonerNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Gerhard TrubeNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Rodolfo GasserPharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Eric PrinssenNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Tanya L WallaceCNS Research, Roche Bioscience, Palo Alto, USA.
Andreas RothfussPharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Henner KnustSmall Molecule Research, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Sian Lennon-ChrimesPharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Welwyn, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1TW, UK.
Michael DerksPharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Welwyn, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1TW, UK.
Darren BentleyPharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Welwyn, Welwyn Garden City, AL7 1TW, UK.
Lisa SquassanteNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Stephane NaveNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Jana NöldekeNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Christoph WandelPharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Andrew W ThomasSmall Molecule Research, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland.
Maria-Clemencia HernandezNeuroscience & Rare Diseases (NRD) Discovery and Translational Area, Roche Pharmaceutical Research and Early Development, Roche Innovation Center Basel, Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070, Basel, Switzerland. maria-clemencia.hernandez@roche.com.
Roche (Switzerland) · CHRoche (United Kingdom) · GBAbbVie (United States) · USCNS Research (United States) · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

GABA

Indexed as

Allosteric RegulationAnimalsBrainFemaleGABA-A Receptor AgonistsHealthy VolunteersHEK293 CellsHumansLearningMacaca fascicularisPositron-Emission TomographyRadioligand AssayRatsRats, Sprague-DawleyReceptors, GABA-AXenopus laevisGABA-A Receptor AgonistsReceptors, GABA-A

Identifiers

PMID33833333
PMCPMC8032764
OpenAlexW3149312291

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