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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2021

Molecular Identity and Location Influence Purkinje Cell Vulnerability in Autosomal-Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay Mice.

Brenda Toscano Márquez, Anna A Cook, Max Rice, Alexia Smileski, Kristen Vieira-Lomasney, François Charron, R Anne McKinney, Alanna J Watt

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. Axonal pathology differentially affects human Purkinje cell subpopulations in the essential tremor cerebellum.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Brenda Toscano MárquezDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Anna A CookDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Max RiceDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Alexia SmileskiDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Kristen Vieira-LomasneyDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
François CharronDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
R Anne McKinneyDepartment of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Alanna J WattDepartment of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
McGill University · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patterned cell death is a common feature of many neurodegenerative diseases. In patients with autosomal-recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS) and mouse models of ARSACS, it has been observed that Purkinje cells in anterior cerebellar vermis are vulnerable to degeneration while those in posterior vermis are resilient. Purkinje cells are known to express certain molecules in a highly stereotyped, patterned manner across the cerebellum. One patterned molecule is zebrin, which is expressed in distinctive stripes across the cerebellar cortex. The different zones delineated by the expression pattern of zebrin and other patterned molecules have been implicated in the patterning of Purkinje cell death, raising the question of whether they contribute to cell death in ARSACS. We found that zebrin patterning appears normal prior to disease onset in

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