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 …

Regulation of axonal regeneration after mammalian spinal cord injury

B Zheng, MH Tuszynski - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2023 - nature.com
One hundred years ago, Ramón y Cajal, considered by many as the founder of modern
neuroscience, stated that neurons of the adult central nervous system (CNS) are incapable …

Recovery of walking after paralysis by regenerating characterized neurons to their natural target region

JW Squair, M Milano, A de Coucy, M Gautier… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Axon regeneration can be induced across anatomically complete spinal cord injury (SCI),
but robust functional restoration has been elusive. Whether restoring neurological functions …

Overlapping transcriptional programs promote survival and axonal regeneration of injured retinal ganglion cells

A Jacobi, NM Tran, W Yan, I Benhar, F Tian, R Schaffer… - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Injured neurons in the adult mammalian central nervous system often die and seldom
regenerate axons. To uncover transcriptional pathways that could ameliorate these …

Mechanisms of axon growth and regeneration: moving between development and disease

F Bradke - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Axons differ in their growth potential: whereas during development, axons rapidly grow to
their targets, in the adult mammalian, CNS axons have lost their ability to grow and therefore …

Chronic stress hinders sensory axon regeneration via impairing mitochondrial cristae and OXPHOS

Y Ruan, J Cheng, J Dai, Z Ma, S Luo, R Yan… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Spinal cord injury (SCI) often leads to physical limitations, persistent pain, and major lifestyle
shifts, enhancing the likelihood of prolonged psychological stress and associated disorders …

[HTML][HTML] The 2021 yearbook of neurorestoratology

HS Sharma, M Chopp, L Chen, A Sarnowska… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Breakthroughs with rapid changes are the themes of the development in Neurorestoratology
this year. Given the very difficult circumstances of the persistent COVID-19 pandemic, most …

Advances in molecular therapies for targeting pathophysiology in spinal cord injury

HN Kim, MR McCrea, S Li - Expert opinion on therapeutic targets, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects 25,000–50,000 people around the world each
year and there is no cure for SCI patients currently. The primary injury damages spinal cord …

[HTML][HTML] Iridium metal complex targeting oxidation resistance 1 protein attenuates spinal cord injury by inhibiting oxidative stress-associated reactive oxygen species

C Peng, J Luo, K Wang, J Li, Y Ma, J Li, H Yang… - Redox Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Oxidative stress is a key factor leading to profound neurological deficits following spinal cord
injury (SCI). In this study, we present the development and potential application of an iridium …

[HTML][HTML] Moving through the crowd. Where are we at understanding physiological axon growth?

E Alfadil, F Bradke - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Axon growth enables the rapid wiring of the central nervous system. Understanding this
process is a prerequisite to retriggering it under pathological conditions, such as a spinal …