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ReviewMultiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England)2019

Remyelination and ageing: Reversing the ravages of time.

Bjoern Neumann, Michael Segel, Kevin J Chalut, Robin Jm Franklin

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Review in Multiple sclerosis (Houndmills, Basingstoke, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
6.1field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

61 citing papers in PubMed, 112 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bjoern NeumannWellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Michael SegelWellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Kevin J ChalutWellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Robin Jm FranklinWellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
Medical Research Council · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_12009Medical Research Council MR/K017047/1Medical Research Council MR/R015635/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Remyelination is a neuroprotective regenerative response to demyelination that restores saltatory conduction and decreases the vulnerability of axons to irreversible degeneration. It is a highly efficient process: however, as with all regenerative processes, its efficiency declines with ageing. Here we argue that this age-related decline in remyelination has a major impact on the natural history of multiple sclerosis (MS), a disease often of several decades' duration. We describe recent work on (1) how ageing changes the function of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs), the cells primarily responsible for generating new myelin-forming oligodendrocytes in remyelination, (2) how these changes are induced by age-related changes in the OPC niche and (3) how these changes can be reversed, thereby opening up the possibility of therapeutically maintaining remyelination efficiency throughout the disease, preserving axonal health and treating the progressive phase of MS.

Indexed as

AgingHumansOligodendrocyte Precursor CellsRemyelinationWhite Matterageingoligodendrocyte progenitor cellRemyelinationstem cell

Identifiers

PMID31687878
PMCPMC7682531
OpenAlexW2982999773

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