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ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2011

PACAP: a master regulator of neuroendocrine stress circuits and the cellular stress response.

Nikolas Stroth, Yvonne Holighaus, Djida Ait-Ali, Lee E Eiden

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Review in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
76citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.1field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

76 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 129 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Lateral septal PACAP signaling regulates stress and anxiety reactions.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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  13. PACAP regulates neuroendocrine and behavioral stress responses via CRF-containing neurons of the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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16 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Nikolas StrothSection on Molecular Neuroscience, Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Regulation, NIMH-IRP, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
Yvonne Holighaus
Djida Ait-Ali
Lee E Eiden
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Chemical Coding Of NeurotransmissionZIAMH002386 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI EIDEN, LEE E. · 2009 to 2025
$25.6M
NEUROSECRETORY VESICLED PROTEINS AND CHEMICAL CODING OF NEUROTRANSMISSIONZ01MH002386 · NIMH · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH · PI EIDEN, LEE E. · 1987 to 2008
$3.6M
Intramural NIH HHS Z01 MH002386Intramural NIH HHS ZIA MH002386
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The neuropeptide pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) is released from stress-transducing neurons. It exerts postsynaptic effects required to complete the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA) and hypothalamo-sympatho-adrenal (HSA) circuits activated by psychogenic and metabolic stressors. Upon activation of these circuits, PACAP-responsive (in cell culture models) and PACAP-dependent (in vivo) transcriptomic responses in the adrenal gland, hypothalamus, and pituitary have been identified. Gene products produced in response circuits during stress include additional neuropeptides, neurotransmitter biosynthetic enzymes, and neuroprotective factors. Major portions of HPA and HSA stress responses are abolished in PACAP-deficient mice. This deficit occurs at the level of both the hypothalamus (HPA axis) and the adrenal medulla (HSA axis). PACAP-dependent transcriptional stress responses are conveyed through noncanonical cyclic AMP- and calcium-initiated signaling pathways within the HSA circuit. PACAP transcriptional regulation of the HPA axis, in the hypothalamus, is likely to be mediated via canonical cyclic AMP signaling through protein kinase A.

Indexed as

AnimalsHumansMiceNeurosecretory SystemsPituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating PolypeptideRatsPituitary Adenylate Cyclase-Activating Polypeptide

Identifiers

PMID21388403
PMCPMC3078626
OpenAlexW1483345618

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