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ReviewOpen medicine (Warsaw, Poland)2022

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and delayed onset muscle soreness in light of the impaired blink and stretch reflexes - watch out for Piezo2.

Balázs Sonkodi, Tibor Hortobágyi

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Review in Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20citing papers in PubMed
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Genetic Variants inInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  3. Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness Begins with a Transient Neural Switch.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025
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  4. Prohibited Olympic Medalist with PIEZO1 VUS Who Claims Innocence.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  14. Psoriasis, Is It a Microdamage of Our "Sixth Sense"? A Neurocentric View.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Balázs SonkodiDepartment of Health Sciences and Sport Medicine, University of Physical Education, Budapest, Hungary.
Tibor HortobágyiELKH-DE Cerebrovascular and Neurodegenerative Research Group, Department of Neurology, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary.
King's College London · GBUniversity of Physical Education · HU

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal, multisystem neurodegenerative disease that causes the death of motoneurons (MNs) progressively and eventually leads to paralysis. In contrast, delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) is defined as delayed onset soreness, muscle stiffness, loss of force-generating capacity, reduced joint range of motion, and decreased proprioceptive function. Sensory deficits and impaired proprioception are common symptoms of both ALS and DOMS, as impairment at the proprioceptive sensory terminals in the muscle spindle is theorized to occur in both. The important clinical distinction is that extraocular muscles (EOM) are relatively spared in ALS, in contrast to limb skeletal muscles; however, the blink reflex goes through a gradual impairment in a later stage of disease progression. Noteworthy is, that, the stretch of EOM induces the blink reflex. The current authors suggest that the impairment of proprioceptive sensory nerve terminals in the EOM muscle spindles are partially responsible for lower blink reflex, beyond central origin, and implies the critical role of Piezo2 ion channels and Wnt-PIP2 signaling in this pathomechanism. The proposed microinjury of Piezo2 on muscle spindle proprioceptive terminals could provide an explanation for the painless dying-back noncontact injury mechanism theory of ALS.

Indexed as

amyotrophic lateral sclerosisblink reflexdelayed onset muscle sorenessextraocular musclePiezo2 ion channelstretch reflex

Identifiers

PMID35340618
PMCPMC8898040
OpenAlexW4214861877

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