Mechanisms of Schwann cell plasticity involved in peripheral nerve repair after injury

G Nocera, C Jacob - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2020 - Springer
The great plasticity of Schwann cells (SCs), the myelinating glia of the peripheral nervous
system (PNS), is a critical feature in the context of peripheral nerve regeneration following …

The success and failure of the Schwann cell response to nerve injury

KR Jessen, R Mirsky - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The remarkable plasticity of Schwann cells allows them to adopt the Remak (non-myelin)
and myelin phenotypes, which are specialized to meet the needs of small and large …

Repair Schwann cell update: Adaptive reprogramming, EMT, and stemness in regenerating nerves

KR Jessen, P Arthur‐Farraj - Glia, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Schwann cells respond to nerve injury by cellular reprogramming that generates cells
specialized for promoting regeneration and repair. These repair cells clear redundant …

[HTML][HTML] The wound microenvironment reprograms Schwann cells to invasive mesenchymal-like cells to drive peripheral nerve regeneration

MP Clements, E Byrne, LFC Guerrero, AL Cattin… - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
Schwann cell dedifferentiation from a myelinating to a progenitor-like cell underlies the
remarkable ability of peripheral nerves to regenerate following injury. However, the …

RUNX transcription factors: orchestrators of development

R Mevel, JE Draper, M Lie-a-Ling, V Kouskoff… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT RUNX transcription factors orchestrate many different aspects of biology,
including basic cellular and developmental processes, stem cell biology and tumorigenesis …

Changes in the coding and non-coding transcriptome and DNA methylome that define the Schwann cell repair phenotype after nerve injury

PJ Arthur-Farraj, CC Morgan, M Adamowicz… - Cell reports, 2017 - cell.com
Repair Schwann cells play a critical role in orchestrating nerve repair after injury, but the
cellular and molecular processes that generate them are poorly understood. Here, we …

YAP and TAZ control peripheral myelination and the expression of laminin receptors in Schwann cells

Y Poitelon, C Lopez-Anido, K Catignas, C Berti… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Myelination is essential for nervous system function. Schwann cells interact with neurons
and the basal lamina to myelinate axons using known receptors, signals and transcription …

New insights into the ameliorative effects of ferulic acid in pathophysiological conditions

S Ghosh, P Basak, S Dutta, S Chowdhury… - Food and Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Ferulic acid, a natural phytochemical has gained importance as a potential therapeutic
agent by virtue of its easy commercial availability, low cost and minimal side-effects. It is a …

Transcriptional control of peripheral nerve regeneration

Y Zhang, Q Zhao, Q Chen, L Xu, S Yi - Molecular Neurobiology, 2023 - Springer
Transcription factors are master regulators of various cellular processes under diverse
physiological and pathological conditions. Many transcription factors that are differentially …

Lessons from injury: How nerve injury studies reveal basic biological mechanisms and therapeutic opportunities for peripheral nerve diseases

P Arthur-Farraj, MP Coleman - Neurotherapeutics, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Since Waller and Cajal in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, laboratory
traumatic peripheral nerve injury studies have provided great insight into cellular and …