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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2024

Building, Breaking, and Repairing Neuromuscular Synapses.

Ruth Herbst, Maartje G Huijbers, Julien Oury, Steven J Burden

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Review of the Pathology of Muscle in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Ruth HerbstCenter for Pathophysiology, Infectiology and Immunology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Maartje G HuijbersDepartment of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Centre LUMC, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands.
Julien OuryHelen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA.
Steven J BurdenNeurology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts 02129, USA sburden@mgh.harvard.edu.

Funding

Signaling by MuSK, a component of the Agrin receptor.R37NS036193 · NINDS · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI BURDEN, STEVEN · 2013 to 2019
$4.5M
THE ROLE OF AGRIN/LRP4/MUSK/DOK-7 SIGNALING IN DISASSEMBLY OF NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSES DURING AGING.R01AG051490 · NIA · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI BURDEN, STEVEN · 2015 to 2019
$2.1M
Austrian Science Fund FWF P 31199NIA NIH HHS R01 AG051490NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS036193
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A coordinated and complex interplay of signals between motor neurons, skeletal muscle cells, and Schwann cells controls the formation and maintenance of neuromuscular synapses. Deficits in the signaling pathway for building synapses, caused by mutations in critical genes or autoantibodies against key proteins, are responsible for several neuromuscular diseases, which cause muscle weakness and fatigue. Here, we describe the role that four key genes,

Indexed as

Neuromuscular JunctionSignal TransductionAgrinAnimalsHumansLDL-Receptor Related ProteinsMotor NeuronsMuscle ProteinsNeuromuscular DiseasesReceptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesReceptors, CholinergicSynapsesAgrinDOK7 protein, humanLDL-Receptor Related ProteinsLRP4 protein, humanMuscle ProteinsReceptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesReceptors, Cholinergic

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PMID38697654
PMCPMC11065174

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