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ArticleBiomedicines2021

The Integrated Effects of Brivaracetam, a Selective Analog of Levetiracetam, on Ionic Currents and Neuronal Excitability.

Te-Yu Hung, Sheng-Nan Wu, Chin-Wei Huang

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Article in Biomedicines, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 21% 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

14 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 1 country.

Te-Yu HungDepartment of Pediatrics, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan 71004, Taiwan.
Sheng-Nan WuDepartment of Physiology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0002-5208-3253
Chin-Wei HuangDepartment of Neurology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan.ORCID 0000-0003-3335-2187
Chi Mei Medical Center · TWNational Cheng Kung University · TWNational Cheng Kung University Hospital · TW

Funding

Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan MOST-105-2320-B-037-013-MY3, 107-2314-B-006-018-, 107-2320-B-006-019-, 108-2320-B-006-023-, 109-2314-B-006 -034 -MY3National Cheng Kung University D106-35A13
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brivaracetam (BRV) is recognized as a novel third-generation antiepileptic drug approved for the treatment of epilepsy. Emerging evidence has demonstrated that it has potentially better efficacy and tolerability than its analog, Levetiracetam (LEV). This, however, cannot be explained by their common synaptic vesicle-binding mechanism. Whether BRV can affect different ionic currents and concert these effects to alter neuronal excitability remains unclear. With the aid of patch clamp technology, we found that BRV concentration dependently inhibited the depolarization-induced M-type K

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brivaracetamlarge-conductance Ca2+-activated K+ channelM-type K+ currentneuronseizurevoltage-gated Na+ current

Identifiers

PMID33916190
PMCPMC8067033
OpenAlexW3140776622

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