Spinal cord repair: advances in biology and technology

G Courtine, MV Sofroniew - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) can face decades with permanent disabilities.
Advances in clinical management have decreased morbidity and improved outcomes, but …

Cell biology of spinal cord injury and repair

TM O'Shea, JE Burda… - The Journal of clinical …, 2017 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Spinal cord injury (SCI) lesions present diverse challenges for repair strategies.
Anatomically complete injuries require restoration of neural connectivity across lesions …

Astrocyte scar formation aids central nervous system axon regeneration

MA Anderson, JE Burda, Y Ren, Y Ao, TM O'Shea… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Transected axons fail to regrow in the mature central nervous system. Astrocytic scars are
widely regarded as causal in this failure. Here, using three genetically targeted loss-of …

Specific glycosaminoglycan chain length and sulfation patterns are required for cell uptake of tau versus α-synuclein and β-amyloid aggregates

BE Stopschinski, BB Holmes, GM Miller… - Journal of Biological …, 2018 - ASBMB
Transcellular propagation of protein aggregate" seeds" has been proposed to mediate the
progression of neurodegenerative diseases in tauopathies and α-synucleinopathies. We …

[HTML][HTML] Heparan sulfate organizes neuronal synapses through neurexin partnerships

P Zhang, H Lu, RT Peixoto, MK Pines, Y Ge, S Oku… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Synapses are fundamental units of communication in the brain. The prototypical synapse-
organizing complex neurexin-neuroligin mediates synapse development and function and is …

Formation and remodeling of the brain extracellular matrix in neural plasticity: Roles of chondroitin sulfate and hyaluronan

S Miyata, H Kitagawa - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background The extracellular matrix (ECM) of the brain is rich in glycosaminoglycans such
as chondroitin sulfate (CS) and hyaluronan. These glycosaminoglycans are organized into …

Adeno-associated virus delivered CXCL9 sensitizes glioblastoma to anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint blockade

CA von Roemeling, JA Patel, SL Carpenter… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
There are numerous mechanisms by which glioblastoma cells evade immunological
detection, underscoring the need for strategic combinatorial treatments to achieve …

Astrocytes in tauopathies

MJ Reid, P Beltran-Lobo, L Johnson… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Tauopathies are a group of neurodegenerative diseases characterized by the progressive
accumulation across the brain of hyperphosphorylated aggregates of the microtubule …

HS, an ancient molecular recognition and information storage glycosaminoglycan, equips hs-proteoglycans with diverse matrix and cell-interactive properties …

AJ Hayes, J Melrose - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Heparan sulfate is a ubiquitous, variably sulfated interactive glycosaminoglycan that
consists of repeating disaccharides of glucuronic acid and glucosamine that are subject to a …

The pathogenesis and virulence of enterovirus-D68 infection

S Sooksawasdi Na Ayudhya, BM Laksono, D van Riel - Virulence, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In 2014, enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) emerged causing outbreaks of severe
respiratory disease in children worldwide. In a subset of patients, EV-D68 infection was …