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ArticleNeuroscience insights2020

Regeneration of Corticospinal Axons into Neural Progenitor Cell Grafts After Spinal Cord Injury.

Gunnar Hd Poplawski, Mark H Tuszynski

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Article in Neuroscience insights, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gunnar Hd PoplawskiDuke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1917-3441
Mark H TuszynskiUniversity of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA.
Duke-NUS Medical School · SGUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Spinal cord injuries leave patients with lifelong paralysis. To date, there are no therapies that promote the critical step required for the recovery of voluntary motor function: corticospinal axon regeneration. Spinal cord-derived neural progenitor cell (NPC) grafts integrate into the injured host spinal cord, enable robust corticospinal axon regeneration, and restore forelimb function following spinal cord injury in rodents. Consequently, engineered stem cell differentiation and transplantation techniques harbor promising potential for the design and implementation of therapies promoting corticospinal axon regeneration. However, in order to optimize the outcome of clinical trials, it is critical to fully understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying this regeneration. Our recent study highlights the unexpected intrinsic potential of corticospinal neurons to regenerate and allows us to investigate new hypotheses exploiting this newly discovered potential.

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axon regenerationcorticospinal tractNeural progenitor cellstranscriptomics

Identifiers

PMID33283187
PMCPMC7691939
OpenAlexW3110404613

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