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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2021

New Molecular Targets for Antidepressant Drugs.

Johannes Kornhuber, Erich Gulbins

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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19citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Precision medicine in mental health: applications, challenges, and recommendations.European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists · 2026
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  8. Identifying novel proteins for suicide attempt by integrating proteomes from brain and blood with genome-wide association data.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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  9. Microglia and Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis.Advances in neurobiology · 2024
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  13. Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors within Cells: Temporal Resolution in Cytoplasm, Endoplasmic Reticulum, and Membrane.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  14. Rapid-acting antidepressants and the circadian clock.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2022
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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

2 authors.

Johannes KornhuberDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, 91054 Erlangen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8096-3987
Erich GulbinsDepartment of Molecular Biology, University of Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany.

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft KO 947/13-3; Gu-335/29-3
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common and severe mental disorder that is usually recurrent and has a high risk of suicide. This disorder manifests not only with psychological symptoms but also multiple changes throughout the body, including increased risks of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Peripheral markers of oxidative stress and inflammation are elevated. MDD is therefore best described as a multisystem whole-body disease. Pharmacological treatment with antidepressants usually requires several weeks before the desired effects manifest. Previous theories of depression, such as the monoamine or neurogenesis hypotheses, do not explain these characteristics well. In recent years, new mechanisms of action have been discovered for long-standing antidepressants that also shed new light on depression, including the sphingolipid system and the receptor for brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF).

Indexed as

acid sphingomyelinaseantidepressant drugautophagybrain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)ceramideFIASMAhippocampuslysosomeneurogenesissphingomyelin

Identifiers

PMID34577594
PMCPMC8472072

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