Multiple sclerosis progression: time for a new mechanism-driven framework

T Kuhlmann, M Moccia, T Coetzee, JA Cohen… - The Lancet …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Traditionally, multiple sclerosis has been categorised by distinct clinical descriptors—
relapsing-remitting, secondary progressive, and primary progressive—for patient care …

Neuron-oligodendrocyte interactions in the structure and integrity of axons

GJ Duncan, TJ Simkins, B Emery - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The myelination of axons by oligodendrocytes is a highly complex cell-to-cell interaction.
Oligodendrocytes and axons have a reciprocal signaling relationship in which …

Motor learning promotes remyelination via new and surviving oligodendrocytes

CM Bacmeister, HJ Barr, CR McClain… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Oligodendrocyte loss in neurological disease leaves axons vulnerable to damage and
degeneration, and activity-dependent myelination may represent an endogenous …

Phagocyte-mediated synapse removal in cortical neuroinflammation is promoted by local calcium accumulation

M Jafari, AM Schumacher, N Snaidero… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cortical pathology contributes to chronic cognitive impairment of patients suffering from the
neuroinflammatory disease multiple sclerosis (MS). How such gray matter inflammation …

Nodes of Ranvier during development and repair in the CNS

C Lubetzki, N Sol-Foulon, A Desmazières - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2020 - nature.com
Saltatory conduction of action potentials along myelinated axons depends on the nodes of
Ranvier—small unmyelinated axonal domains where voltage-gated sodium channels are …

Live imaging reveals the cellular events downstream of SARM1 activation

KW Ko, L Devault, Y Sasaki, J Milbrandt, A DiAntonio - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
SARM1 is an inducible NAD+ hydrolase that triggers axon loss and neuronal cell death in
the injured and diseased nervous system. While SARM1 activation and enzyme function are …

Axon‐myelin unit blistering as early event in MS normal appearing white matter

A Luchicchi, B Hart, I Frigerio, AM van Dam… - Annals of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic neuroinflammatory and neurodegenerative
disease of unknown etiology. Although the prevalent view regards a CD4+‐lymphocyte …

The fate and function of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells after traumatic spinal cord injury

GJ Duncan, SB Manesh, BJ Hilton, P Assinck… - Glia, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) are the most proliferative and dispersed population
of progenitor cells in the adult central nervous system, which allows these cells to rapidly …

Plasma membrane integrity: implications for health and disease

DA Ammendolia, WM Bement, JH Brumell - BMC biology, 2021 - Springer
Plasma membrane integrity is essential for cellular homeostasis. In vivo, cells experience
plasma membrane damage from a multitude of stressors in the extra-and intra-cellular …

Chronic demyelination and axonal degeneration in multiple sclerosis: pathogenesis and therapeutic implications

TJ Simkins, GJ Duncan, D Bourdette - Current neurology and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common demyelinating
disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Inflammatory attacks in MS lead to both …