supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Nos.82072165 and 82272256(both to XM);the Key Project of Xiangyang Central Hospital,No.2023YZ03(to RM)。
Spinal cord injury represents a severe form of central nervous system trauma for which effective treatments remain limited.Microglia is the resident immune cells of the central nervous system,play a critical role in s...
funded by the Santa Casa Neuroscience Awards—Prize Melo e Castro for Spinal Cord Injury Research(MC-18-2021)(to AJS and NAS);by the Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation(WFL-PT-14/23)(to NAS);funded by national funds through the Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT)—projects UIDB/50026/2020,UIDP/50026/2020,and EXPL/MED-PAT/0931/2021-http://doi.org/10.54499/EXPL/MED PAT/0931/2021;supported by the Norte Portugal Regional Operational Programme(NORTE 2020)under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement through the European Regional Development Fund(ERDF)(to SM);the support given by the Portuguese Foundation of Science and Technology to SM(CEECIND/01902/2017-Doi:10.54499/CEECIND/01902/2017/CP1458/CT0024),and NAS(CEECIND/04794/2007)。
The impact of spinal cord injury(SCI)on the immune system is increasingly recognized in a field traditionally focused on motor impairments.SCI can seriously affect the immune system by progressively disrupting the reg...
Secondary injury following spinal cord injury is primarily characterized by a complex inflammatory response,with resident microglia and infiltrating macrophages playing pivotal roles.While previous studies have groupe...
supported by the Sichuan Science and Technology Program,No.2023YFS0164(to JC);the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.82401629(to XL);the Natural Science Foundation of Sichuan Province,No.2024NSFSC1646(to XL);the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation,Nos.GZC20231811(to XL)and 2024T170601(to XL)。
Enhancing neurological recovery and improving the prognosis of spinal cord injury have gained research attention recently.Spinal cord injury is associated with a complex molecular and cellular microenvironment.This co...
supported by Ohio State Start Up Fund;National Institutes of Health(NIH);Department of Defense(DoD);Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation,Wings for Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation(Austria);California Institute of Regenerative Medicine(CIRM);International Spinal Research Trust(United Kingdom);Stanford University Bio-X Program Interdisciplinary Initiatives Seed Grant IIP-7;Dennis Chan Foundation;Klein Family Fund;Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health;Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neurosciences(SINTN);Saunders Family Neuroscience Fund;James Doty Neurosurgery Fund;Hearst Neuroscience Fund;Eileen Bond Research Fund(to GP)。
In recent years,the progression of stem cell therapies has shown great promise in advancing the nascent field of regenerative medicine.Considering the non-regenerative nature of the mature central nervous system,the c...
funded by national funds,through the Foundation for Science and Technology(FCT)-project UIDB/50026/2020,UIDP/50026/2020(to NAS),EXPL/MEDPAT/0931/2021(to SM);Financial support was provided by Prémios Santa Casa Neurociências-Prize Melo e Castro for Spinal Cord Injury Research(MC-18-2021);Wings For Life Spinal Cord Research Foundation(WFL-PT-14/23);"la Caixa"Foundation(HR23-00484)(to NAS);the FCT for the Scientific Employment Stimulus to NAS and SM(CEECIND/04794/2017 and CEECIND/01902/2017)。
Spinal cord injury(SCI)involves an initial traumatic phase,followed by secondary events such as ischemia,increased blood-spinal cord barrier permeability,ionic disruption,glutamate excitotoxicity,and metabolic alterat...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81801907(to NC);Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Bone Tissue Repair and Translational Research,No.ZDSYS20230626091402006(to NC);Sanming Project of Medicine in Shenzhen,No.SZSM201911002(to SL);Foundation of Shenzhen Committee for Science and Technology Innovation,Nos.JCYJ20230807110310021(to NC),JCYJ20230807110259002(to JL);Science and Technology Program of Guangzhou,No.2024A04J4716(to TL)。
We previously demonstrated that inhibiting neural stem cells necroptosis enhances functional recovery after spinal cord injury.While exosomes are recognized as playing a pivotal role in neural stem cells exocrine func...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Nos.82071387(to HT),81971172(to YW);the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province,China,No.LY22H090012(to HT);the Basic Research Project of Wenzhou City,China,No.Y20220923(to MZ)。
The M1/M2 phenotypic shift of microglia after spinal cord injury plays an important role in the regulation of neuroinflammation during the secondary injury phase of spinal cord injury.Regulation of shifting microglia ...
supported by COBRE(P30GM149367);the Puerto Rico Science&Technology Trust(2022-00125);MBRS-RISE Program(R25 GM061838);SC1GM144032 program(all to JDM)。
In addition to the loss of motor function,~60% of patients develop pain after spinal cord injury.The cellular-molecular mechanisms are not well understood,but the data suggests that plasticity within the rostral,epice...
supported by grants from the National Key Research and Development Program of China,No.2017YFA0105400(to LR);the Key Research and Development Program of Guangdong Province,No.2019B020236002(to LR);the National Natural Science Foundation of China,Nos.81972111(to LZ),81772349(to BL).
Microglia,the resident monocyte of the central nervous system,play a crucial role in the response to spinal cord injury.However,the precise mechanism remains unclear.To investigate the molecular mechanisms by which mi...