[HTML][HTML] Anisotropic scaffolds for peripheral nerve and spinal cord regeneration

W Xue, W Shi, Y Kong, M Kuss, B Duan - Bioactive materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The treatment of long-gap (> 10 mm) peripheral nerve injury (PNI) and spinal cord injury
(SCI) remains a continuous challenge due to limited native tissue regeneration capabilities …

Advances in 3D printing scaffolds for peripheral nerve and spinal cord injury repair

J Song, B Lv, W Chen, P Ding… - International Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Because of the complex nerve anatomy and limited regeneration ability of natural tissue, the
current treatment effect for long-distance peripheral nerve regeneration and spinal cord …

Spinal Hb9:: Cre-derived excitatory interneurons contribute to rhythm generation in the mouse

V Caldeira, KJ Dougherty, L Borgius, O Kiehn - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Rhythm generating neurons are thought to be ipsilaterally-projecting excitatory neurons in
the thoracolumbar mammalian spinal cord. Recently, a subset of Shox2 interneurons (Shox2 …

Motoneurons regulate the central pattern generator during drug-induced locomotor-like activity in the neonatal mouse

M Falgairolle, JG Puhl, A Pujala, W Liu, MJ O'Donovan - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Motoneurons are traditionally viewed as the output of the spinal cord that do not influence
locomotor rhythmogenesis. We assessed the role of motoneuron firing during ongoing …

V1 interneurons regulate the pattern and frequency of locomotor-like activity in the neonatal mouse spinal cord

M Falgairolle, MJ O'Donovan - PLoS Biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
In the mouse spinal cord, V1 interneurons are a heterogeneous population of inhibitory
spinal interneurons that have been implicated in regulating the frequency of the locomotor …

Identification of a novel spinal nociceptive-motor gate control for Aδ pain stimuli in rats

D Blivis, G Haspel, PZ Mannes, MJ O'Donovan… - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Physiological responses to nociceptive stimuli are initiated within tens of milliseconds, but
the corresponding sub-second behavioral responses have not been adequately explored in …

Optogenetic activation of V1 interneurons reveals the multimodality of spinal locomotor networks in the neonatal mouse

M Falgairolle, MJ O'Donovan - Journal of Neuroscience, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
In the spinal cord, classes of interneurons have been studied in vitro to determine their role
in producing or regulating locomotion. It is unclear whether all locomotor behaviors are …

Acetylcholine and spinal locomotor networks: The insider

T Mille, C Quilgars, JR Cazalets… - Physiological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article aims to review studies that have investigated the role of neurons that use the
transmitter acetylcholine (ACh) in controlling the operation of locomotor neural networks …

Motoneuronal spinal circuits in degenerative motoneuron disease

M Falgairolle, MJ O'Donovan - Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The most evident phenotype of degenerative motoneuron disease is the loss of motor
function which accompanies motoneuron death. In both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) …

Ipsilateral and contralateral interactions in spinal locomotor circuits mediated by V1 neurons: Insights from computational modeling

NA Shevtsova, EZ Li, S Singh, KJ Dougherty… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
We describe and analyze a computational model of neural circuits in the mammalian spinal
cord responsible for generating and shaping locomotor-like oscillations. The model …