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ArticleeLife2021

Spatiotemporal control of cell cycle acceleration during axolotl spinal cord regeneration.

Emanuel Cura Costa, Leo Otsuki, Aida Rodrigo Albors, Elly M Tanaka, Osvaldo Chara

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Article in eLife, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
5.5field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Lessons from the Axolotl: De Novo Nephron Formation after Nephrectomy.Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN · 2026
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  3. Transcriptomics Insights into Spinal Cord Injury for Therapy Development.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  4. Signal control during tissue regeneration in adult animals.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  7. Spinal Cord Regeneration in Xenopus.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  12. A concise guide to fluorescent cell cycle reporters for live-cell imaging.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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  19. Now that We Got There, What Next?Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 6 countries.

Emanuel Cura Costa *Systems Biology Group (SysBio), Institute of Physics of Liquids and Biological Systems (IFLySIB), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-7030-2077
Leo Otsuki *The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-6107-2508
Aida Rodrigo AlborsDivision of Cell and Developmental Biology, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0002-9573-2639
Elly M TanakaThe Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna Biocenter (VBC), Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-4240-2158
Osvaldo CharaSystems Biology Group (SysBio), Institute of Physics of Liquids and Biological Systems (IFLySIB), National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and University of La Plata (UNLP), La Plata, Argentina.ORCID 0000-0002-0868-2507
Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas · ARResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology · ATStowers Institute for Medical Research · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Axolotls are uniquely able to resolve spinal cord injuries, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying spinal cord regeneration. We previously found that tail amputation leads to reactivation of a developmental-like program in spinal cord ependymal cells (Rodrigo Albors et al., 2015), characterized by a high-proliferation zone emerging 4 days post-amputation (Rost et al., 2016). What underlies this spatiotemporal pattern of cell proliferation, however, remained unknown. Here, we use modeling, tightly linked to experimental data, to demonstrate that this regenerative response is consistent with a signal that recruits ependymal cells during ~85 hours after amputation within ~830 μm of the injury. We adapted Fluorescent Ubiquitination-based Cell Cycle Indicator (FUCCI) technology to axolotls (AxFUCCI) to visualize cell cycles in vivo. AxFUCCI axolotls confirmed the predicted appearance time and size of the injury-induced recruitment zone and revealed cell cycle synchrony between ependymal cells. Our modeling and imaging move us closer to understanding

Indexed as

Cell ProliferationSpatio-Temporal AnalysisSpinal Cord RegenerationAmbystoma mexicanumAnimalsAnimals, Genetically ModifiedCell CycleComputational BiologyEpendymaSpinal Cord InjuriesUbiquitinationaxolotlcell cyclecell proliferationcomputational biologycomputational modeldevelopmental biologyFUCCIspinal cord regenerationsystems biology

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PMID33988504
PMCPMC8205487
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