Function and therapeutic value of astrocytes in neurological diseases

HG Lee, MA Wheeler, FJ Quintana - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2022 - nature.com
Astrocytes are abundant glial cells in the central nervous system (CNS) that perform diverse
functions in health and disease. Astrocyte dysfunction is found in numerous diseases …

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 …

Bioactive scaffolds with enhanced supramolecular motion promote recovery from spinal cord injury

Z Álvarez, AN Kolberg-Edelbrock, IR Sasselli… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The signaling of cells by scaffolds of synthetic molecules that mimic proteins is known to be
effective in the regeneration of tissues. Here, we describe peptide amphiphile …

Astrocyte crosstalk in CNS inflammation

M Linnerbauer, MA Wheeler, FJ Quintana - Neuron, 2020 - cell.com
Astrocytes control multiple processes in the nervous system in health and disease. It is now
clear that specific astrocyte subsets or activation states are associated with specific genomic …

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 …

Astrocytes in human central nervous system diseases: a frontier for new therapies

A Verkhratsky, A Butt, B Li, P Illes, R Zorec… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Astroglia are a broad class of neural parenchymal cells primarily dedicated to homoeostasis
and defence of the central nervous system (CNS). Astroglia contribute to the …

Microglia coordinate cellular interactions during spinal cord repair in mice

FH Brennan, Y Li, C Wang, A Ma, Q Guo, Y Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) triggers a neuro-inflammatory response dominated by
tissue-resident microglia and monocyte derived macrophages (MDMs). Since activated …

Confronting false discoveries in single-cell differential expression

JW Squair, M Gautier, C Kathe, MA Anderson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Differential expression analysis in single-cell transcriptomics enables the dissection of cell-
type-specific responses to perturbations such as disease, trauma, or experimental …

Natural and targeted circuit reorganization after spinal cord injury

MA Anderson, JW Squair, M Gautier, TH Hutson… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A spinal cord injury disrupts communication between the brain and the circuits in the spinal
cord that regulate neurological functions. The consequences are permanent paralysis, loss …