Epigenetic control of regeneration after spinal cord injury: Com- plete spinal cord injury (SCI) in humans and other mammals leads to irreversible paralysis below the level of injury, due to failure of axonal regen...Epigenetic control of regeneration after spinal cord injury: Com- plete spinal cord injury (SCI) in humans and other mammals leads to irreversible paralysis below the level of injury, due to failure of axonal regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS). Previous work has shown that successful axon regeneration is dependent upon transcription of a large number of regeneration-associated genes (RAGs) and transcription factors (TFs) (Van Kesteren et al., 2011). A prominent theory in the field of axon regeneration is that the large differences in regenerative potential between peripheral nervous system (PNS) neurons, which regenerate well, and CNS neurons, which do not, reflect differences in intrinsic transcriptional net- works, rather than individual genes (Van Kesteren et al., 2011).展开更多
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文摘Epigenetic control of regeneration after spinal cord injury: Com- plete spinal cord injury (SCI) in humans and other mammals leads to irreversible paralysis below the level of injury, due to failure of axonal regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS). Previous work has shown that successful axon regeneration is dependent upon transcription of a large number of regeneration-associated genes (RAGs) and transcription factors (TFs) (Van Kesteren et al., 2011). A prominent theory in the field of axon regeneration is that the large differences in regenerative potential between peripheral nervous system (PNS) neurons, which regenerate well, and CNS neurons, which do not, reflect differences in intrinsic transcriptional net- works, rather than individual genes (Van Kesteren et al., 2011).