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ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2022

"Calcium bombs" as harbingers of synaptic pathology and their mitigation by magnesium at murine neuromuscular junctions.

Kosala N Dissanayake, Robert R Redman, Harry Mackenzie, Michael Eddleston, Richard R Ribchester

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Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Kosala N DissanayakeEuan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Robert R RedmanEuan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Harry MackenzieEuan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Michael EddlestonClinical Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutics, Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Richard R RibchesterEuan MacDonald Centre for Motor Neurone Disease Research, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Mott MacDonald (United Kingdom) · GBUniversity of Edinburgh · GBThe Queen's Medical Research Institute · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/M024075/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Excitotoxicity is thought to be an important factor in the onset and progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Evidence from human and animal studies also indicates that early signs of ALS include degeneration of motor nerve terminals at neuromuscular junctions (NMJs), before degeneration of motor neuron cell bodies. Here we used a model of excitotoxicity at NMJs in isolated mouse muscle, utilizing the organophosphorus (OP) compound omethoate, which inhibits acetylcholinesterase activity. Acute exposure to omethoate (100 μM) induced prolonged motor endplate contractures in response to brief tetanic nerve stimulation at 20-50 Hz. In some muscle fibers, Fluo-4 fluorescence showed association of these contractures with explosive increases in Ca

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ALScalcium imagingmuscle contractionneuromuscular junctionorgan culturesynapsesynaptic pathology

Identifiers

PMID35959105
PMCPMC9361872
OpenAlexW4288034478

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