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ReviewBioengineering (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Roles of the Complement System in Peripheral Nerve Injury and Repair.

Carmelina Azar, Kaixin Pan, Prini Jain, Elsa Sanchez-Lopez, Sameer B Shah

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Review in Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Carmelina AzarDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Kaixin PanDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Prini JainDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Elsa Sanchez-LopezDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4236-1985
Sameer B ShahDepartment of Bioengineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6613-3904

Funding

Progressive Lengthening for Nerve RepairR01NS140437 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI Sameer B. Shah · 2025 to 2026
$1.2M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS140437RRD VA I01 RX004518
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When nerves are severed, such as during traumatic injury, an acute injury state is induced, characterized by biological and physical changes in the proximal and distal stumps. Beyond the initial injury phase, over a time frame of weeks to months, nerves that remain unrepaired progressively enter a chronic injury state, characterized by a change in the extracellular matrix structure of the distal stump, the down-regulation of neurotrophic factors and the loss of macrophages' and Schwann cells' ability to clear out degraded axons and myelin. There are also potential systemic impacts away from the site of injury, including in end organs such as muscle and bone. The literature suggests that several of these processes may be strongly influenced by innate and adaptive immune system responses, including a major role for complement pathways. This review details evidence in favor of such a possibility, as well as knowledge gaps and areas for future investigation.

Indexed as

complementimmune cellimmune systeminflammatorynerve regenerationneuronperipheral nerve injuryWallerian degeneration

Identifiers

PMID41749790
PMCPMC12938356

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