Transplanting neural progenitor cells to restore connectivity after spinal cord injury

I Fischer, JN Dulin, MA Lane - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Spinal cord injury remains a scientific and therapeutic challenge with great cost to
individuals and society. The goal of research in this field is to find a means of restoring lost …

Regeneration of spinal cord connectivity through stem cell transplantation and biomaterial scaffolds

H Katoh, K Yokota, MG Fehlings - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Significant progress has been made in the treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI). Advances in
post-trauma management and intensive rehabilitation have significantly improved the …

Injured adult neurons regress to an embryonic transcriptional growth state

GHD Poplawski, R Kawaguchi, E Van Niekerk, P Lu… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Grafts of spinal-cord-derived neural progenitor cells (NPCs) enable the robust regeneration
of corticospinal axons and restore forelimb function after spinal cord injury; however, the …

[HTML][HTML] Neural stem cell grafts form extensive synaptic networks that integrate with host circuits after spinal cord injury

S Ceto, KJ Sekiguchi, Y Takashima, A Nimmerjahn… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Neural stem/progenitor cell (NSPC) grafts can integrate into sites of spinal cord injury (SCI)
and generate neuronal relays across lesions that can provide functional benefit. To …

Adhesive, stretchable, and spatiotemporal delivery fibrous hydrogels harness endogenous neural stem/progenitor cells for spinal cord injury repair

Z Chen, H Zhang, C Fan, Y Zhuang, W Yang, Y Chen… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Aligned fibrous hydrogels capable of recruiting endogenous neural stem/progenitor cells
(NSPCs) show great promise in spinal cord injury (SCI) repair. However, the hydrogels …

Generation and post-injury integration of human spinal cord neural stem cells

H Kumamaru, K Kadoya, AF Adler, Y Takashima… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Spinal cord neural stem cells (NSCs) have great potential to reconstitute damaged spinal
neural circuitry, but they have yet to be generated in vitro. We now report the derivation of …

Direct neuronal reprogramming: achievements, hurdles, and new roads to success

S Gascón, G Masserdotti, GL Russo, M Götz - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
The ability to directly reprogram mature cells to alternative fates challenges concepts of how
cell identities are maintained, erased, and acquired. Recent advances in understanding and …

Rhesus macaque versus rat divergence in the corticospinal projectome

E Sinopoulou, ES Rosenzweig, JM Conner, D Gibbs… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
We used viral intersectional tools to map the entire projectome of corticospinal neurons
associated with fine distal forelimb control in Fischer 344 rats and rhesus macaques. In rats …

Modulation by DREADD reveals the therapeutic effect of human iPSC-derived neuronal activity on functional recovery after spinal cord injury

T Kitagawa, N Nagoshi, Y Kamata, M Kawai, K Ago… - Stem cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Transplantation of neural stem/progenitor cells (NS/PCs) derived from human induced
pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) is considered to be a promising therapy for spinal cord injury …

Can injured adult CNS axons regenerate by recapitulating development?

BJ Hilton, F Bradke - Development, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
In the adult mammalian central nervous system (CNS), neurons typically fail to regenerate
their axons after injury. During development, by contrast, neurons extend axons effectively. A …