Spinal cord injury: molecular mechanisms and therapeutic interventions

X Hu, W Xu, Y Ren, Z Wang, X He, R Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a severe condition with an extremely high disability rate.
The challenges of SCI repair include its complex pathological mechanisms and the …

Astrocytes in human central nervous system diseases: a frontier for new therapies

A Verkhratsky, A Butt, B Li, P Illes, R Zorec… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Astroglia are a broad class of neural parenchymal cells primarily dedicated to homoeostasis
and defence of the central nervous system (CNS). Astroglia contribute to the …

Microglia regulation of central nervous system myelin health and regeneration

SA Kent, VE Miron - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Microglia are resident macrophages of the central nervous system that have key functions in
its development, homeostasis and response to damage and infection. Although microglia …

Exploring microglia and their phenomenal concatenation of stress responses in neurodegenerative disorders

T Asveda, P Talwar, P Ravanan - Life Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
Neuronal cells are highly functioning but also extremely stress-sensitive cells. By defending
the neuronal cells against pathogenic insults, microglial cells, a unique cell type, act as the …

Fate mapping of Spp1 expression reveals age-dependent plasticity of disease-associated microglia-like cells after brain injury

Y Lan, X Zhang, S Liu, C Guo, Y Jin, H Li, L Wang… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Microglial reactivity to injury and disease is emerging as a heterogeneous, dynamic, and
crucial determinant in neurological disorders. However, the plasticity and fate of disease …

Temporal single-cell atlas of non-neuronal retinal cells reveals dynamic, coordinated multicellular responses to central nervous system injury

I Benhar, J Ding, W Yan, IE Whitney, A Jacobi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Non-neuronal cells are key to the complex cellular interplay that follows central nervous
system insult. To understand this interplay, we generated a single-cell atlas of immune, glial …

An in vitro and ex vivo analysis of the potential of GelMA hydrogels as a therapeutic platform for preclinical spinal cord injury

CM Walsh, JK Wychowaniec, L Costello… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition with no curative therapy currently
available. Immunomodulation can be applied as a therapeutic strategy to drive alternative …

Tackling the glial scar in spinal cord regeneration: new discoveries and future directions

A Shafqat, I Albalkhi, HM Magableh, T Saleh… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Axonal regeneration and functional recovery are poor after spinal cord injury (SCI), typified
by the formation of an injury scar. While this scar was traditionally believed to be primarily …

Synergistic pharmacological therapy to modulate glial cells in spinal cord injury

V Veneruso, E Petillo, F Pizzetti, A Orro… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Current treatments for modulating the glial‐mediated inflammatory response after spinal
cord injury (SCI) have limited ability to improve recovery. This is quite likely due to the lack of …

Alpinetin inhibits neuroinflammation and neuronal apoptosis via targeting the JAK2/STAT3 signaling pathway in spinal cord injury

S Xiao, Y Zhang, Z Liu, A Li, W Tong… - CNS neuroscience & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Background A growing body of research shows that drug monomers from traditional
Chinese herbal medicines have antineuroinflammatory and neuroprotective effects that can …