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ArticleScientific reports2017

Complement Protein C3 Suppresses Axon Growth and Promotes Neuron Loss.

Sheri L Peterson, Hal X Nguyen, Oscar A Mendez, Aileen J Anderson

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

32 citing papers in PubMed, 69 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Sheri L PetersonSue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
Hal X NguyenSue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
Oscar A MendezSue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA.
Aileen J AndersonSue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Center, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA. aja@uci.edu.
University of California, Irvine · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The inflammatory response to spinal cord injury (SCI) involves localization and activation of innate and adaptive immune cells and proteins, including the complement cascade. Complement C3 is important for the classical, alternative, and lectin pathways of complement activation, and its cleavage products C3a and C3b mediate several functions in the context of inflammation, but little is known about the potential functions of C3 on regeneration and survival of injured neurons after SCI. We report that 6 weeks after dorsal hemisection with peripheral conditioning lesion, C3

Indexed as

AnimalsAxonsCells, CulturedCell SurvivalComplement C3Ganglia, SpinalMice, KnockoutMyelin SheathNerve RegenerationNeuritesSciatic NerveSerine ProteasesSpinal CordSpinal Cord InjuriesComplement C3Serine Proteases

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PMID29018286
PMCPMC5635131
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