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 …

Astrocyte reactivity: subtypes, states, and functions in CNS innate immunity

MV Sofroniew - Trends in immunology, 2020 - cell.com
Astrocytes are neural parenchymal cells that ubiquitously tile the central nervous system
(CNS). In addition to playing essential roles in healthy tissue, astrocytes exhibit an …

Moving beyond the glial scar for spinal cord repair

EJ Bradbury, ER Burnside - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Traumatic spinal cord injury results in severe and irreversible loss of function. The injury
triggers a complex cascade of inflammatory and pathological processes, culminating in …

The PI3K/AKT signalling pathway in inflammation, cell death and glial scar formation after traumatic spinal cord injury: Mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities

X He, Y Li, B Deng, A Lin, G Zhang, M Ma… - Cell …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Objects Traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) causes neurological dysfunction below
the injured segment of the spinal cord, which significantly impacts the quality of life in …

The biology of regeneration failure and success after spinal cord injury

AP Tran, PM Warren, J Silver - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
Since no approved therapies to restore mobility and sensation following spinal cord injury
(SCI) currently exist, a better understanding of the cellular and molecular mechanisms …

Temporal and spatial cellular and molecular pathological alterations with single-cell resolution in the adult spinal cord after injury

C Li, Z Wu, L Zhou, J Shao, X Hu, W Xu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) involves diverse injury responses in different cell types in a
temporally and spatially specific manner. Here, using single-cell transcriptomic analyses …

Cell transplantation therapy for spinal cord injury

P Assinck, GJ Duncan, BJ Hilton, JR Plemel… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Spinal cord injury can lead to severe motor, sensory and autonomic dysfunction. Currently,
there is no effective treatment for the injured spinal cord. The transplantation of Schwann …

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 …

The diversity and disparity of the glial scar

KL Adams, V Gallo - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Injury or disease to the CNS results in multifaceted cellular and molecular responses. One
such response, the glial scar, is a structural formation of reactive glia around an area of …

Questions and (some) answers on reactive astrocytes

C Escartin, O Guillemaud, M Carrillo‐de Sauvage - Glia, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Astrocytes are key cellular partners for neurons in the central nervous system. Astrocytes
react to virtually all types of pathological alterations in brain homeostasis by significant …