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ReviewExperimental neurology2021

Widening spinal injury research to consider all supraspinal cell types: Why we must and how we can.

Murray Blackmore, Elizabeth Batsel, Pantelis Tsoulfas

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Review in Experimental neurology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
1.4field-weighted citation impact, top 20% 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.

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

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Single-Nuclei Sequencing Reveals a Robust Corticospinal Response to Nearby Axotomy But Overall Insensitivity to Spinal Injury.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  3. Nonresolving Neuroinflammation Regulates Axon Regeneration in Chronic Spinal Cord Injury.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  4. Injury distance limits the transcriptional response to spinal injury.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  8. Single Nuclei Analyses Reveal Transcriptional Profiles and Marker Genes for Diverse Supraspinal Populations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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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

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Murray BlackmoreDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Marquette University, 53201, United States of America. Electronic address: murray.blackmore@marquette.edu.
Elizabeth BatselDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Marquette University, 53201, United States of America.
Pantelis TsoulfasDepartment of Neurological Surgery, Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, United States of America.
Marquette University · USUniversity of Miami · US

Funding

Functional Testing of KLF7 in Spinal Cord Injury: An Optogenetic ApproachR01NS083983 · NINDS · MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY · PI BLACKMORE, MURRAY G · 2013 to 2023
$3.5M
Strategies to maximize the functional benefit of regenerated corticospinal tract axonsR01NS107807 · NINDS · MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY · PI BLACKMORE, MURRAY G · 2018 to 2022
$1.7M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS083983NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS107807
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The supraspinal connectome consists of dozens of neuronal populations that project axons from the brain to the spinal cord to influence a wide range of motor, autonomic, and sensory functions. The complexity and wide distribution of supraspinal neurons present significant technical challenges, leading most spinal cord injury research to focus on a handful of major pathways such as the corticospinal, rubrospinal, and raphespinal. Much less is known about many additional populations that carry information to modulate or compensate for these main pathways, or which carry pre-autonomic and other information of high value to individuals with spinal injury. A confluence of technical developments, however, now enables a whole-connectome study of spinal cord injury. Improved viral labeling, tissue clearing, and automated registration to 3D atlases can quantify supraspinal neurons throughout the murine brain, offering a practical means to track responses to injury and treatment on an unprecedented scale. Here we discuss the need for expanded connectome-wide analyses in spinal injury research, illustrate the potential by discussing a new web-based resource for brain-wide study of supraspinal neurons, and highlight future prospects for connectome analyses.

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AnimalsBiomedical ResearchConnectomeHumansSpinal CordSpinal Cord InjuriesTranscriptomeAAVBrainGlobeConnectomeFluorescent proteinLight-sheet microscopyPropriospinalRegenerationRetrogradeTranscriptome

Identifiers

PMID34520726
PMCPMC8805209
OpenAlexW3199036588

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Registered trials

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