ReviewNeuron2011
NG2-glia as multipotent neural stem cells: fact or fantasy?
Review in Neuron, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 167 papers.
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167 citing papers in PubMed, 292 citations in OpenAlex.
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- NG2 Glia and Cellular Crosstalk in Health and Disease: Focus on Spinal Cord Injury.Pathophysiology : the official journal of the International Society for Pathophysiology · 2026Review
- Spared Nerve Injury Induces Long-Term and Brain Region-Specific Changes in Oligodendrocyte Density in Mice.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2026Article
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- The Gut-Brain-Immune Axis in Glioma: Emerging Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2026Review
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- Targeting glial-orchestrated neuroinflammation in migraine pathophysiology.The journal of headache and pain · 2026Review
- Spared nerve injury induces long-term and brain region-specific changes in oligodendrocyte density in mice.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Thyroxine Treatment after Traumatic Brain Injury Suppresses Astrogliosis and Enhances Neuronal Recovery in Mice.Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association · 2025Article
- Dual lineage origins contribute to neocortical astrocyte diversity.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Single-Cell RNA Sequencing and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal a Novel Mechanism of Oligodendrocyte-Neuron Interaction in Cognitive Decline After High-Altitude Cerebral Edema.CNS neuroscience & therapeutics · 2025Article
- MRI signatures of cortical microstructure in human development align with oligodendrocyte cell-type expression.Nature communications · 2025Article
- GCN2-Mediated eIF2α Phosphorylation Is Required for Central Nervous System Remyelination.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- Remyelination in the Central Nervous System.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2024Review
- Intrinsic organization of the corpus callosum.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Review
- Myelination-independent functions of oligodendrocyte precursor cells in health and disease.Nature neuroscience · 2023Review
- Recombinant Erythropoietin Induces Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cell Proliferation After Traumatic Brain Injury and Delayed Hypoxemia.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2023Article
- The epigenetic landscape of oligodendrocyte lineage cells.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2023Review
- Engineered neurogenesis in naïve adult rat cortex by Ngn2-mediated neuronal reprogramming of resident oligodendrocyte progenitor cells.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
107 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Cycling glial precursors-"NG2-glia"-are abundant in the developing and mature central nervous system (CNS). During development, they generate oligodendrocytes. In culture, they can revert to a multipotent state, suggesting that they might have latent stem cell potential that could be harnessed to treat neurodegenerative disease. This hope has been subdued recently by a series of fate-mapping studies that cast NG2-glia as dedicated oligodendrocyte precursors in the healthy adult CNS-though rare, neuron production in the piriform cortex remains a possibility. Following CNS damage, the repertoire of NG2-glia expands to include Schwann cells and possibly astrocytes-but so far not neurons. This reaffirms the central role of NG2-glia in myelin repair. The realization that oligodendrocyte generation continues throughout normal adulthood has seeded the idea that myelin genesis might also be involved in neural plasticity. We review these developments, highlighting areas of current interest, contention, and speculation.
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