Evidence map›Paper›PMID 40456908›Full record

ReviewNature neuroscience2025

Changing genes, cells and networks to reprogram the brain after stroke.

Wenlu Li, Paul George, Matine M Azadian, MingMing Ning, Amar Dhand, Steven C Cramer, S Thomas Carmichael, Eng H Lo

Abstract readReview
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Review in Nature neuroscience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
12citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
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

12 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Network-oriented neurorehabilitation after stroke: a paradigmatic approach.Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation · 2026
    Review
  5. Article
  6. Review
  7. Article
  8. Review
  9. CRISPR-Based Therapy for Ischemic Stroke: A Narrative Review.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2026
    Review
  10. Article
  11. Review
  12. Review
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

8 authors.

Wenlu LiNeuroprotection Research Laboratories, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. wenluli@yahoo.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6507-392X
Paul GeorgeDepartment of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1080-098X
Matine M AzadianDepartment of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8253-7113
MingMing NingClinical Proteomics Research Center, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Amar DhandDepartment of Neurology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Steven C CramerDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
S Thomas CarmichaelDepartment of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1169-9203
Eng H LoNeuroprotection Research Laboratories, Departments of Radiology and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. ehlo@mgh.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9327-2915

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Important advances have been made in reperfusion therapies for acute ischemic stroke. However, a majority of patients are either ineligible for or do not respond to treatments and continue to have considerable functional deficits. Stroke results in a pathological disruption of the neurovascular unit (NVU) that involves blood-brain barrier leakage, glial activation, neuronal damage and chronic inflammation, all of which create a microenvironment that hinders recovery. Therefore, finding ways to promote central nervous system recovery remains the holy grail of stroke research. Here we propose a conceptual framework to synthesize recent progress in the field, which is currently dispersed and disconnected in the literature. We suggest that stroke recovery requires an integrated reprogramming process throughout the brain that occurs at multiple levels, including changes in gene expression, endogenous cellular transdifferentiation within the NVU, and reorganization of larger-scale neural and social networks.

Indexed as

BrainCellular ReprogrammingNerve NetStrokeAnimalsHumansRecovery of Function

Identifiers

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.