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ArticleCell death & disease2022

Multi-target action of β-alanine protects cerebellar tissue from ischemic damage.

Olga Kopach, Dmitri A Rusakov, Sergiy Sylantyev

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Article in Cell death & disease, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.7field-weighted citation impact, top 16% 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Olga KopachQueen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3921-3674
Dmitri A RusakovQueen Square Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, WC1N 3BG, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9539-9947
Sergiy SylantyevRowett Institute, University of Aberdeen, Ashgrove Road West, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK. s.sylantyev@gmail.com.
Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology · UANational Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery · GBUniversity of Aberdeen · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MR/W019752/1National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research NC/X001067/1Wellcome Trust 212251/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Brain ischemic stroke is among the leading causes of death and long-term disability. New treatments that alleviate brain cell damage until blood supply is restored are urgently required. The emerging focus of anti-stroke strategies has been on blood-brain-barrier permeable drugs that exhibit multiple sites of action. Here, we combine single-cell electrophysiology with live-cell imaging to find that β-Alanine (β-Ala) protects key physiological functions of brain cells that are exposed to acute stroke-mimicking conditions in ex vivo brain preparations. β-Ala exerts its neuroprotective action through several distinct pharmacological mechanisms, none of which alone could reproduce the neuroprotective effect. Since β-Ala crosses the blood-brain barrier and is part of a normal human diet, we suggest that it has a strong potential for acute stroke treatment and facilitation of recovery.

Indexed as

Brain InjuriesBrain IschemiaNeuroprotective AgentsStrokebeta-AlanineBrainHumansbeta-AlanineNeuroprotective Agents

Identifiers

PMID36038575
PMCPMC9424312
OpenAlexW4293457235

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