Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Injured adult motor and sensory axons regenerate into appropriate organotypic domains of neural progenitor grafts

  • Jennifer N. Dulin,
  • Andrew F. Adler,
  • Hiromi Kumamaru,
  • Gunnar H. D. Poplawski,
  • Corinne Lee-Kubli,
  • Hans Strobl,
  • Daniel Gibbs,
  • Ken Kadoya,
  • James W. Fawcett,
  • Paul Lu,
  • Mark H. Tuszynski

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02613-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Understanding how transplanted cells interact with the host nervous system will be important for cell based neural regeneration approaches. Here, the authors study the sensory fate of neural progenitor cell grafts transplanted to the injured spinal cord, and show that host axons retain the ability to distinguish appropriate and inappropriate graft targets.