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ArticleGlia2009

NG2 cell response in the CNP-EGFP mouse after contusive spinal cord injury.

Judith M Lytle, Ramesh Chittajallu, Jean R Wrathall, Vittorio Gallo

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Article in Glia, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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46citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

46 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. NG2 Glia and Cellular Crosstalk in Health and Disease: Focus on Spinal Cord Injury.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2026
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  9. Macroglial diversity: white and grey areas and relevance to remyelination.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021
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  11. Glial Cells Shape Pathology and Repair After Spinal Cord Injury.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2018
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  17. Spinal Cord Injury and Related Clinical Trials.Clinics in orthopedic surgery · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Judith M LytleDepartment of Neuroscience, Georgetown University, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
Ramesh Chittajallu
Jean R Wrathall
Vittorio Gallo
Children's National · USGeorgetown University · US

Funding

A Common Glial-Neuronal Progenitor in Postnatal BrainR01NS045702 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI VITTORIO GALLO, VITTORIO GALLO VITTORIO GALLO · 2004 to 2014
$3.7M
CELLULAR INTERACTIONS IN SPINAL CORD INJURYR01NS035647 · NINDS · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI WRATHALL, JEAN REW · 1997 to 2010
$3.0M
Characterization of Sox17 as a Regulator of Oligodendrocyte Cell DifferentiationR01NS056427 · NINDS · CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI VITTORIO GALLO, VITTORIO GALLO VITTORIO GALLO · 2007 to 2011
$1.8M
Functional Characteristics of NGPCs After SCIF31NS051086 · NINDS · GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY · PI LYTLE, JUDITH · 2005 to 2006
$55k
NINDS NIH HHS 5F31NS051086-02NINDS NIH HHS F31 NS051086NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS035647NINDS NIH HHS R01-NS035647NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS045702NINDS NIH HHS R01-NS045702NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS056427NINDS NIH HHS R01-NS056427
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

NG2(+) cells in the adult CNS are a heterogeneous population. The extent to which the subpopulation of NG2(+) cells that function as oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) respond to spinal cord injury (SCI) and recapitulate their normal developmental progression remains unclear. We used the CNP-EGFP mouse, in which oligodendrocyte lineage cells express EGFP, to study NG2(+) cells in the normal and injured spinal cord. In white matter of uninjured mice, bipolar EGFP(+)NG2(+) cells and multipolar EGFP(neg)NG2(+) cells were identified. After SCI, EGFP(+)NG2(+) cell proliferation in residual white matter peaked at 3 days post injury (DPI) rostral to the epicenter, while EGFP(neg)NG2(+) cell proliferation peaked at 7 DPI at the epicenter. The expression of transcription factors, Olig2, Sox10, and Sox17, and the basic electrophysiological membrane parameters and potassium current phenotype of the EGFP(+)NG2(+) population after injury were consistent with those of proliferative OPCs during development. EGFP(neg)NG2(+) cells did not express transcription factors involved in oligodendrogenesis. EGFP(+)CC1(+) oligodendrocytes at 6 weeks included cells that incorporated BrdU during the peak of EGFP(+)NG2(+) cell proliferation. EGFP(neg)CC1(+) oligodendrocytes were never observed. Treatment with glial growth factor 2 and fibroblast growth factor 2 enhanced oligodendrogenesis and increased the number of EGFP(neg)NG2(+) cells. Therefore, based on EGFP and transcription factor expression, spatiotemporal proliferation patterns, and response to growth factors, two populations of NG2(+) cells can be identified that react to SCI. The EGFP(+)NG2(+) cells undergo cellular and physiological changes in response to SCI that are similar to those that occur in early postnatal NG2(+) cells during developmental oligodendrogenesis.

Indexed as

Action PotentialsAdult Stem CellsAnimalsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsBehavior, AnimalBromodeoxyuridineCell ProliferationCyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 3Disease Models, AnimalFibroblast Growth Factor 2Gene Expression RegulationGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHMGB ProteinsMiceMice, TransgenicNerve Tissue ProteinsBasic Helix-Loop-Helix ProteinsBromodeoxyuridineCyclic Nucleotide Phosphodiesterases, Type 3enhanced green fluorescent proteinFibroblast Growth Factor 2Green Fluorescent ProteinsHMGB ProteinsNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuregulin-1Nrg1 protein, mouseOlig2 protein, mouseOligodendrocyte Transcription Factor 2Potassium Channels, Voltage-GatedSox10 protein, mouseSox17 protein, mouseSOXE Transcription FactorsSOXF Transcription Factors

Identifiers

PMID18756526
PMCPMC2696059
OpenAlexW1975212239

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