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ReviewNeuroscience letters2017

Selecting optimal combinations of transcription factors to promote axon regeneration: Why mechanisms matter.

Ishwariya Venkatesh, Murray G Blackmore

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Review in Neuroscience letters, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

21 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Single-Nuclei Sequencing Reveals a Robust Corticospinal Response to Nearby Axotomy But Overall Insensitivity to Spinal Injury.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  2. A miR-383-5p Signaling Hub Coordinates the Axon Regeneration Response to Inflammation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  3. Injury distance limits the transcriptional response to spinal injury.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  15. Advances and Limitations of Current Epigenetic Studies Investigating Mammalian Axonal Regeneration.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2018
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  16. Intrinsic mechanisms of neuronal axon regeneration.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2018
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  17. Differential Expression ofFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2017
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Ishwariya VenkateshDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Marquette University, 53201, United States.
Murray G BlackmoreDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Marquette University, 53201, United States. Electronic address: murray.blackmore@marquette.edu.

Funding

Functional Testing of KLF7 in Spinal Cord Injury: An Optogenetic ApproachR01NS083983 · NINDS · MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY · PI BLACKMORE, MURRAY G · 2013 to 2023
$3.5M
Novel Gene Targets at the Intersection of Axon Regeneration and Cancer BiologyR21NS093278 · NINDS · MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY · PI BLACKMORE, MURRAY G · 2016 to 2017
$415k
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS083983NINDS NIH HHS R21 NS093278
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recovery from injuries to the central nervous system, including spinal cord injury, is constrained in part by the intrinsically low ability of many CNS neurons to mount an effective regenerative growth response. To improve outcomes, it is essential to understand and ultimately reverse these neuron-intrinsic constraints. Genetic manipulation of key transcription factors (TFs), which act to orchestrate production of multiple regeneration-associated genes, has emerged as a promising strategy. It is likely that no single TF will be sufficient to fully restore neuron-intrinsic growth potential, and that multiple, functionally interacting factors will be needed. An extensive literature, mostly from non-neural cell types, has identified potential mechanisms by which TFs can functionally synergize. Here we examine four potential mechanisms of TF/TF interaction; physical interaction, transcriptional cross-regulation, signaling-based cross regulation, and co-occupancy of regulatory DNA. For each mechanism, we consider how existing knowledge can be used to guide the discovery and effective use of TF combinations in the context of regenerative neuroscience. This mechanistic insight into TF interactions is needed to accelerate the design of effective TF-based interventions to relieve neuron-intrinsic constraints to regeneration and to foster recovery from CNS injury.

Indexed as

Nerve RegenerationAnimalsAxonsBrainGenetic LociHumansPeripheral NervesSpinal CordSpinal Cord InjuriesTranscription FactorsTranscription FactorsAxon regenerationCombinationCo-occupancyNetworkSpinal cord injuryTranscription factor

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PMID28025113
PMCPMC5466899

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