Evidence map›Paper›PMID 33834423›Full record

ArticleCerebellum (London, England)2021

Epigenetic Regulation of Neural Transmission after Cerebellar Fastigial Nucleus Lesions in Juvenile Rats.

Simeon O A Helgers, Svilen Angelov, Marc A N Muschler, Alexander Glahn, Shadi Al-Afif, Yazeed Al Krinawe, Elvis J Hermann, Joachim K Krauss, Helge Frieling, Kerstin Schwabe and 1 more

Open access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Cerebellum (London, England), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 53% 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

4 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Thalamic deep brain stimulation improves movement in a cerebellar model of lesion-based status dystonicus.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2025
    Article
  3. Article
  4. Involvement of the cerebellum in migraine.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2022
    Review
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

11 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Simeon O A HelgersDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. helgers.simeon@mh-hannover.de.
Svilen AngelovDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Marc A N MuschlerDepartment of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Alexander GlahnDepartment of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Shadi Al-AfifDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Yazeed Al KrinaweDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Elvis J HermannDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Joachim K KraussDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Helge FrielingDepartment of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Kerstin SchwabeDepartment of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Mathias RheinDepartment of Psychiatry, Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Structural and functional abnormalities in the cerebellar midline region, including the fastigial nucleus, have been reported in neuropsychiatric disorders, also comprising the cerebellar cognitive affecting syndrome. In rats, early fastigial lesions reduce social interaction during development and lead to cognitive and emotional deficits in adults, accompanied by compromised neuronal network activity. Since epigenetic mechanisms are implicated in the etiology of neuropsychiatric disorders, we investigated whether fastigial nucleus lesions in juvenile rats would impact epigenetic regulation of neural transmission. The fastigial nucleus was lesioned bilaterally in 23-day-old male rats. Sham-lesion and naïve rats served as controls. DNA methylation was investigated for target genes of the GABAergic, dopaminergic, glutamatergic and oxytocinergic systems in brain regions with anatomic connections to the fastigial nucleus, i.e., medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, striatum, thalamus, and sensorimotor cortex. Protein expression was examined for the respective target genes in case of altered DNA methylation between lesion and control groups. Lesioning of the fastigial nucleus led to significant differences in the epigenetic regulation of glutamate decarboxylase 1 and the oxytocin receptor in the nucleus accumbens and the prefrontal cortex. No differences were found for the other target genes and brain regions. Our findings indicate that epigenetic dysregulation after lesioning of the fastigial nucleus may influence long-term recovery and the emergence of behavioral changes. Together with previous behavioral and electrophysiological investigations of this rat model, these observations can play a role in the cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome and other neuropsychiatric disorders.

Indexed as

Cerebellar NucleiEpigenesis, GeneticAnimalsCerebellumMalePrefrontal CortexRatsSynaptic TransmissionCerebellar cognitive affective syndromeCerebellumGAD1MethylationOXTROxytocin

Identifiers

PMID33834423
PMCPMC8674159
OpenAlexW3139928539

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
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.