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 …

Current advancements in spinal cord Injury Research—glial scar formation and neural regeneration

T Clifford, Z Finkel, B Rodriguez, A Joseph, L Cai - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a complex tissue injury resulting in permanent and degenerating
damage to the central nervous system (CNS). Detrimental cellular processes occur after SCI …

Therapeutic repair for spinal cord injury: combinatory approaches to address a multifaceted problem

JM Griffin, F Bradke - EMBO molecular medicine, 2020 - embopress.org
The recent years saw the advent of promising preclinical strategies that combat the
devastating effects of a spinal cord injury (SCI) that are progressing towards clinical trials …

[HTML][HTML] A bioactive injectable self-healing anti-inflammatory hydrogel with ultralong extracellular vesicles release synergistically enhances motor functional recovery …

C Wang, M Wang, K Xia, J Wang, F Cheng, K Shi… - Bioactive materials, 2021 - Elsevier
The repair and motor functional recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a worldwide
challenge. The inflammatory microenvironment is one of main obstacles on inhibiting the …

Development of myelinating glia: an overview

CD Cristobal, HK Lee - Glia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Myelin is essential to nervous system function, playing roles in saltatory conduction and
trophic support. Oligodendrocytes (OLs) and Schwann cells (SCs) form myelin in the central …

Pathophysiology of spinal cord injury

LD Hachem, MG Fehlings - Neurosurgery Clinics, 2021 - neurosurgery.theclinics.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) triggers a complex cascade of molecular and chemical events that
leads to progressive cell loss and tissue damage. 1, 2 Nearly a century of fundamental basic …

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 …

Neuregulin-1/ErbB network: An emerging modulator of nervous system injury and repair

H Kataria, A Alizadeh, S Karimi-Abdolrezaee - Progress in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Neuregulin-1 (Nrg-1) is a member of the Neuregulin family of growth factors with
essential roles in the developing and adult nervous system. Six different types of Nrg-1 (Nrg …

Tackling the glial scar in spinal cord regeneration: new discoveries and future directions

A Shafqat, I Albalkhi, HM Magableh, T Saleh… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Axonal regeneration and functional recovery are poor after spinal cord injury (SCI), typified
by the formation of an injury scar. While this scar was traditionally believed to be primarily …

[HTML][HTML] An injectable heparin-Laponite hydrogel bridge FGF4 for spinal cord injury by stabilizing microtubule and improving mitochondrial function

C Wang, Z Gong, X Huang, J Wang, K Xia, L Ying… - Theranostics, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Rationale: Spinal cord injury (SCI) remains a critical clinical challenge. The controlled
release of FGF4, a novel neuroprotective factor, from a versatile Laponite hydrogel to the …