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Friedreich's ataxia: the vicious circle hypothesis revisited

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, October 2011
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Title
Friedreich's ataxia: the vicious circle hypothesis revisited
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BMC Medicine, October 2011
DOI 10.1186/1741-7015-9-112
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Aurélien Bayot, Renata Santos, Jean-Michel Camadro, Pierre Rustin

Abstract

Friedreich's ataxia, the most frequent progressive autosomal recessive disorder involving the central and peripheral nervous systems, is mostly associated with unstable expansion of GAA trinucleotide repeats in the first intron of the FXN gene, which encodes the mitochondrial frataxin protein. Since FXN was shown to be involved in Friedreich's ataxia in the late 1990s, the consequence of frataxin loss of function has generated vigorous debate. Very early on we suggested a unifying hypothesis according to which frataxin deficiency leads to a vicious circle of faulty iron handling, impaired iron-sulphur cluster synthesis and increased oxygen radical production. However, data from cell and animal models now indicate that iron accumulation is an inconsistent and late event and that frataxin deficiency does not always impair the activity of iron-sulphur cluster-containing proteins. In contrast, frataxin deficiency appears to be consistently associated with increased sensitivity to reactive oxygen species as opposed to increased oxygen radical production. By compiling the findings of fundamental research and clinical observations we defend here the opinion that the very first consequence of frataxin depletion is indeed an abnormal oxidative status which initiates the pathogenic mechanism underlying Friedreich's ataxia.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 2 2%
Portugal 1 1%
Unknown 80 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 23%
Researcher 15 18%
Professor > Associate Professor 8 10%
Student > Bachelor 6 7%
Student > Postgraduate 5 6%
Other 19 23%
Unknown 11 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 30 36%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 17 20%
Medicine and Dentistry 7 8%
Neuroscience 3 4%
Chemistry 3 4%
Other 10 12%
Unknown 13 16%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 December 2019.
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#6,731,570
of 23,881,329 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medicine
#2,539
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#39,362
of 138,277 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#20
of 28 outputs
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