Apoptosis in the pathogenesis and treatment of disease

CB Thompson - Science, 1995 - science.org
In multicellular organisms, homeostasis is maintained through a balance between cell
proliferation and cell death. Although much is known about the control of cell proliferation …

Chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans: preventing plasticity or protecting the CNS?

KE Rhodes, JW Fawcett - Journal of anatomy, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
It is well established that axonal regeneration in the adult CNS is largely unsuccessful.
Numerous axon‐inhibitory molecules are now known to be present in the injured CNS, and …

Cortical neurons immunoreactive for the potassium channel Kv3. 1b subunit are predominantly surrounded by perineuronal nets presumed as a buffering system for …

W Härtig, A Derouiche, K Welt, K Brauer, J Grosche… - Brain research, 1999 - Elsevier
Perineuronal nets (PNs) are known as chondroitin sulphate-rich, lattice-like coatings of the
extracellular matrix. In the cortex of mammalian species investigated so far, they were mainly …

Perineuronal nets decrease membrane capacitance of peritumoral fast spiking interneurons in a model of epilepsy

BP Tewari, L Chaunsali, SL Campbell, DC Patel… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Brain tumor patients commonly present with epileptic seizures. We show that tumor-
associated seizures are the consequence of impaired GABAergic inhibition due to an overall …

Protective properties of neural extracellular matrix

A Suttkus, M Morawski, T Arendt - Molecular neurobiology, 2016 - Springer
The extracellular matrix (ECM) of the central nervous system (CNS) occupies a large part of
the neural tissue. It serves a variety of functions ranging from support of cell migration and …

Perineuronal net dynamics in the pathophysiology of epilepsy

L Chaunsali, BP Tewari, H Sontheimer - Epilepsy Currents, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Perineuronal nets (PNNs) are condensed extracellular matrix (ECM) assemblies of
polyanionic chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans, hyaluronan, and tenascins that primarily wrap …

Ion exchanger in the brain: quantitative analysis of perineuronally fixed anionic binding sites suggests diffusion barriers with ion sorting properties

M Morawski, T Reinert, W Meyer-Klaucke, FE Wagner… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Perineuronal nets (PNs) are a specialized form of brain extracellular matrix, consisting of
negatively charged glycosaminoglycans, glycoproteins and proteoglycans in the direct …

[HTML][HTML] Neuroprotection against iron-induced cell death by perineuronal nets-an in vivo analysis of oxidative stress

A Suttkus, S Rohn, C Jäger, T Arendt… - American Journal of …, 2012 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Perineuronal nets (PNs) are a specialized form of extracellular matrix, surrounding different
types of neurons and mainly consist of chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans connected to …

Multiple particle tracking detects changes in brain extracellular matrix and predicts neurodevelopmental age

M McKenna, D Shackelford, H Ferreira Pontes, B Ball… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Brain extracellular matrix (ECM) structure mediates many aspects of neural development
and function. Probing structural changes in brain ECM could thus provide insights into …

Growth cone behavior in the presence of soluble chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan (CSPG), compared to behavior on CSPG bound to laminin or fibronectin

DM Snow, EM Brown, PC Letourneau - International Journal of …, 1996 - Elsevier
Proteoglycans (PGs) are complex macromolecules of the extracellular matrix (ECM) that
have a wide variety of effects on developing and regenerating neurons in vivo and in vitro …