Evidence map›Paper›PMID 20881138›Full record

ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2010

Induction of vertebrate regeneration by a transient sodium current.

Ai-Sun Tseng, Wendy S Beane, Joan M Lemire, Alessio Masi, Michael Levin

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Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 119 papers.

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119citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

119 citing papers in PubMed, 207 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Ai-Sun TsengDepartment of Biology and Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155, USA.
Wendy S Beane
Joan M Lemire
Alessio Masi
Michael Levin
Tufts University · USHarvard University Press · US

Funding

Biophysical controls of vertebrate organ regenerationR01GM078484 · NIGMS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI LEVIN, MICHAEL · 2008 to 2011
$1.2M
Biophysical Regulation of Axial Polarity During RegenerationF32GM083547 · NIGMS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI BEANE, WENDY SCOTT · 2008 to 2010
$145k
NIGMS NIH HHS F32 GM083547NIGMS NIH HHS F32-GM083547NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078484NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM078484
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amphibians such as frogs can restore lost organs during development, including the lens and tail. To design biomedical therapies for organ repair, it is necessary to develop a detailed understanding of natural regeneration. Recently, ion transport has been implicated as a functional regulator of regeneration. Whereas voltage-gated sodium channels play a well known and important role in propagating action potentials in excitable cells, we have identified a novel role in regeneration for the ion transport function mediated by the voltage-gated sodium channel, Na(V)1.2. A local, early increase in intracellular sodium is required for initiating regeneration following Xenopus laevis tail amputation, and molecular and pharmacological inhibition of sodium transport causes regenerative failure. Na(V)1.2 is absent under nonregenerative conditions, but misexpression of human Na(V)1.5 can rescue regeneration during these states. Remarkably, pharmacological induction of a transient sodium current is capable of restoring regeneration even after the formation of a nonregenerative wound epithelium, confirming that it is the regulation of sodium transport that is critical for regeneration. Our studies reveal a previously undetected competency window in which cells retain their intrinsic regenerative program, identify a novel endogenous role for Na(V) in regeneration, and show that modulation of sodium transport represents an exciting new approach to organ repair.

Indexed as

AnimalsEpitheliumHumansLarvaOrgan Culture TechniquesRegenerationSodium ChannelsTailXenopus laevisXenopus ProteinsSodium ChannelsXenopus Proteins

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PMID20881138
PMCPMC2965411
OpenAlexW2159063766

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