Spinal cord injury reveals multilineage differentiation of ependymal cells. / Meletis, Konstantinos; Barnabé-Heider, Fanie; Carlén, Marie; Evergren, Emma; Tomilin, Nikolay; Shupliakov, Oleg; Frisén, Jonas.
In: PLoS Biology, Vol. 6, No. 7, e182, 01.07.2008, p. 1494-1507.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Spinal cord injury reveals multilineage differentiation of ependymal cells
AU - Meletis, Konstantinos
AU - Barnabé-Heider, Fanie
AU - Carlén, Marie
AU - Evergren, Emma
AU - Tomilin, Nikolay
AU - Shupliakov, Oleg
AU - Frisén, Jonas
PY - 2008/7/1
Y1 - 2008/7/1
N2 - Spinal cord injury often results in permanent functional impairment. Neural stem cells present in the adult spinal cord can be expanded in vitro and improve recovery when transplanted to the injured spinal cord, demonstrating the presence of cells that can promote regeneration but that normally fail to do so efficiently. Using genetic fate mapping, we show that close to all in vitro neural stem cell potential in the adult spinal cord resides within the population of ependymal cells lining the central canal. These cells are recruited by spinal cord injury and produce not only scar-forming glial cells, but also, to a lesser degree, oligodendrocytes. Modulating the fate of ependymal progeny after spinal cord injury may offer an alternative to cell transplantation for cell replacement therapies in spinal cord injury.
AB - Spinal cord injury often results in permanent functional impairment. Neural stem cells present in the adult spinal cord can be expanded in vitro and improve recovery when transplanted to the injured spinal cord, demonstrating the presence of cells that can promote regeneration but that normally fail to do so efficiently. Using genetic fate mapping, we show that close to all in vitro neural stem cell potential in the adult spinal cord resides within the population of ependymal cells lining the central canal. These cells are recruited by spinal cord injury and produce not only scar-forming glial cells, but also, to a lesser degree, oligodendrocytes. Modulating the fate of ependymal progeny after spinal cord injury may offer an alternative to cell transplantation for cell replacement therapies in spinal cord injury.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060182
DO - 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060182
M3 - Article
C2 - 18651793
AN - SCOPUS:48349122033
VL - 6
SP - 1494
EP - 1507
JO - PLoS Biology
JF - PLoS Biology
SN - 1544-9173
IS - 7
M1 - e182
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