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ReviewFrontiers in systems neuroscience2019

Role of Propriospinal Neurons in Control of Respiratory Muscles and Recovery of Breathing Following Injury.

Victoria N Jensen, Warren J Alilain, Steven A Crone

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Review in Frontiers in systems neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 45 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Diverse Transcriptional Alterations in V2a Propriospinal Neurons Following Spinal Cord Injury.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  8. A cholinergic spinal pathway for the adaptive control of breathing.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  10. Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Motor Circuit Development.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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  11. V2a neurons restore diaphragm function in mice following spinal cord injury.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Victoria N JensenNeuroscience Graduate Program, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
Warren J AlilainSpinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, United States.
Steven A CroneDivision of Neurosurgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, United States.
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · USUniversity of Cincinnati Medical Center · USUniversity of Kentucky · US

Funding

Spinal circuitry for ventilatory control and compensationR01NS112255 · NINDS · CINCINNATI CHILDRENS HOSP MED CTR · PI CRONE, STEVEN ALLEN · 2019 to 2023
$1.7M
Promoting and understanding recovery of breathing after chronic spinal cord injuryR01NS101105 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI ALILAIN, WARREN JOSEPH · 2017 to 2021
$1.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS101105NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS112255
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Respiratory motor failure is the leading cause of death in spinal cord injury (SCI). Cervical injuries disrupt connections between brainstem neurons that are the primary source of excitatory drive to respiratory motor neurons in the spinal cord and their targets. In addition to direct connections from bulbospinal neurons, respiratory motor neurons also receive excitatory and inhibitory inputs from propriospinal neurons, yet their role in the control of breathing is often overlooked. In this review, we will present evidence that propriospinal neurons play important roles in patterning muscle activity for breathing. These roles likely include shaping the pattern of respiratory motor output, processing and transmitting sensory afferent information, coordinating ventilation with motor activity, and regulating accessory and respiratory muscle activity. In addition, we discuss recent studies that have highlighted the importance of propriospinal neurons for recovery of respiratory muscle function following SCI. We propose that molecular genetic approaches to target specific developmental neuron classes in the spinal cord would help investigators resolve the many roles of propriospinal neurons in the control of breathing. A better understanding of how spinal circuits pattern breathing could lead to new treatments to improve breathing following injury or disease.

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breathingcentral pattern generation (CPG)interneuronsneuroplasticityspinal cord injury (SCI)

Identifiers

PMID32009911
PMCPMC6978673
OpenAlexW3000293249

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