Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Microglia coordinate cellular interactions during spinal cord repair in mice

  • Faith H. Brennan,
  • Yang Li,
  • Cankun Wang,
  • Anjun Ma,
  • Qi Guo,
  • Yi Li,
  • Nicole Pukos,
  • Warren A. Campbell,
  • Kristina G. Witcher,
  • Zhen Guan,
  • Kristina A. Kigerl,
  • Jodie C. E. Hall,
  • Jonathan P. Godbout,
  • Andy J. Fischer,
  • Dana M. McTigue,
  • Zhigang He,
  • Qin Ma,
  • Phillip G. Popovich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31797-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 20

Abstract

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Here the authors show, using microglia-specific depletion techniques and single cell transcriptomics, that optimal repair after murine spinal cord injury (SCI) requires microglia.