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ReviewBrain research2020

Intra-axonal mechanisms driving axon regeneration.

Terika P Smith, Pabitra K Sahoo, Amar N Kar, Jeffery L Twiss

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Review in Brain research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 41 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Role of the Nervous System in Lung Disease.Current neurology and neuroscience reports · 2026
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  6. Physical Forces in Regeneration of Cells and Tissues.Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2025
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  7. Disruption of G3BP1 granules promotes mammalian CNS and PNS axon regeneration.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  11. Integrin-Driven Axon Regeneration in the Spinal Cord Activates a Distinctive CNS Regeneration Program.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  14. Profiling Locally Translated mRNAs in Regenerating Axons.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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  16. Axon Initial Segments Are Required for Efficient Motor Neuron Axon Regeneration and Functional Recovery of Synapses.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  18. Axonal mRNA localization and translation: local events with broad roles.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2021
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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 1 institution in 1 country.

Terika P SmithDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Pabitra K SahooDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Amar N KarDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
Jeffery L TwissDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA. Electronic address: twiss@mailbox.sc.edu.
University of South Carolina · US

Funding

Destabilization of axonal mRNAs by KHSRP complexes during axon regenerationR01NS089633 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI TWISS, JEFFERY L · 2015 to 2025
$4.1M
Translation during Nerve RegenerationR01NS041596 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI TWISS, JEFFERY L · 2001 to 2018
$4.0M
Examining mRNA localization in central sensory axons after peripheral nerve injuryK01NS105879 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA · PI SMITH, TERIKA · 2018 to 2021
$381k
NINDS NIH HHS K01 NS105879NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS041596NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS089633
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic injury to the peripheral and central nervous systems very often causes axotomy, where an axon loses connections with its target resulting in loss of function. The axon segments distal to the injury site lose connection with the cell body and degenerate. Axotomized neurons in the periphery can spontaneously mount a regenerative response and reconnect to their denervated target tissues, though this is rarely complete in humans. In contrast, spontaneous regeneration rarely occurs after axotomy in the spinal cord and brain. Here, we concentrate on the mechanisms underlying this spontaneous regeneration in the peripheral nervous system, focusing on events initiated from the axon that support regenerative growth. We contrast this with what is known for axonal injury responses in the central nervous system. Considering the neuropathy focus of this special issue, we further draw parallels and distinctions between the injury-response mechanisms that initiate regenerative gene expression programs and those that are known to trigger axon degeneration.

Indexed as

AnimalsAxonsAxotomyHumansNerve RegenerationPeripheral Nervous System DiseasesRNASpinal Cord InjuriesRNAAxonal protein synthesisAxon regenerationPeripheral neuropathiesRetrograde signalling

Identifiers

PMID32360100
PMCPMC8166413
OpenAlexW3022514155

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