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ReviewActa pharmacologica Sinica2026

The serotonin-gated 5-HT3 receptor: a tale of functions and structures of a prototypical pentameric ligand-gated ion channel.

Zhong-Jie Ye, Chen-Yang Wu, Hang Zhang, Hua-Wei Zhang, Horst Vogel

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Review in Acta pharmacologica Sinica, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Zhong-Jie Ye *Center for AI-Driven Medical Research, Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Chen-Yang Wu *Center for AI-Driven Medical Research, Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Hang Zhang *Center for AI-Driven Medical Research, Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Hua-Wei ZhangCenter for AI-Driven Medical Research, Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China. hw.zhang@siat.ac.cn.
Horst VogelCenter for AI-Driven Medical Research, Institute of Biomedicine and Biotechnology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, 518055, China. horst.vogel@epfl.ch.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Serotonin-gated 5-HT3 receptors (5-HT3Rs), which belong to the cys-loop superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels, mediate fast excitatory neurotransmission in the central and peripheral nervous system. They are targets for drugs to treat neurological diseases and psychiatric disorders, as well as chemotherapy-induced and postoperative nausea and emesis. The ever-increasing number of resolved 3D structures of the homopentameric form of 5-HT

Indexed as

Ligand-Gated Ion ChannelsReceptors, Serotonin, 5-HT3AnimalsBinding SitesHumansLigandsProtein ConformationSerotonin 5-HT3 Receptor AntagonistsLigand-Gated Ion ChannelsLigandsReceptors, Serotonin, 5-HT3Serotonin 5-HT3 Receptor Antagonistsallosteric conformational changedrug targetelectrophysiological propertieshomopentamer and heteropentamerligand-gated ion channelserotonin-gated 5-HT3 receptorsignal transductionstructure and function

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PMID41813973
PMCPMC13279792

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