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ReviewBiomolecules2021

Inhibition of Glycine Re-Uptake: A Potential Approach for Treating Pain by Augmenting Glycine-Mediated Spinal Neurotransmission and Blunting Central Nociceptive Signaling.

Christopher L Cioffi

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Review in Biomolecules, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  8. Mechanisms of transport and analgesic compounds recognition by glycine transporter 2.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christopher L CioffiDepartments of Basic and Clinical Sciences and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, NY 12208, USA.
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences · US

Funding

Discovery and development of novel glycine transporter-2 inhibitors for the treatment of neuropathic painR01DA048879 · NIDA · RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE · PI CIOFFI, CHRISTOPHER L., VANDENBERG, ROBERT JOHN · 2019 to 2022
$1.8M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA048879NIH HHS 1R01DA048879
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Among the myriad of cellular and molecular processes identified as contributing to pathological pain, disinhibition of spinal cord nociceptive signaling to higher cortical centers plays a critical role. Importantly, evidence suggests that impaired glycinergic neurotransmission develops in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord in inflammatory and neuropathic pain models and is a key maladaptive mechanism causing mechanical hyperalgesia and allodynia. Thus, it has been hypothesized that pharmacological agents capable of augmenting glycinergic tone within the dorsal horn may be able to blunt or block aberrant nociceptor signaling to the brain and serve as a novel class of analgesics for various pathological pain states. Indeed, drugs that enhance dysfunctional glycinergic transmission, and in particular inhibitors of the glycine transporters (GlyT1 and GlyT2), are generating widespread interest as a potential class of novel analgesics. The GlyTs are Na

Indexed as

Chronic PainNeuralgiaNociceptionSignal TransductionSynaptic TransmissionAnimalsGlycineGlycine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsHumansSpinal CordGlycineGlycine Plasma Membrane Transport Proteinsallodyniadorsal hornGABAglycineglycine receptor (GlyR)glycine transporter (GlyT)hyperalgesiainflammatory painneuropathic painN-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) receptornociceptorspinal cord

Identifiers

PMID34200954
PMCPMC8230656
OpenAlexW3169360441

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