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Transcript profiling of different types of multiple sclerosis lesions yields FGF1 as a promoter of remyelination

Overview of attention for article published in Acta Neuropathologica Communications, December 2014
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Title
Transcript profiling of different types of multiple sclerosis lesions yields FGF1 as a promoter of remyelination
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Acta Neuropathologica Communications, December 2014
DOI 10.1186/s40478-014-0168-9
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Hema Mohan, Anita Friese, Stefanie Albrecht, Markus Krumbholz, Christina L Elliott, Ariel Arthur, Ramesh Menon, Cinthia Farina, Andreas Junker, Christine Stadelmann, Susan C Barnett, Inge Huitinga, Hartmut Wekerle, Reinhard Hohlfeld, Hans Lassmann, Tanja Kuhlmann, Chris Linington, Edgar Meinl

Abstract

Chronic demyelination is a pathological hallmark of multiple sclerosis (MS). Only a minority of MS lesions remyelinates completely. Enhancing remyelination is, therefore, a major aim of future MS therapies. Here we took a novel approach to identify factors that may inhibit or support endogenous remyelination in MS. We dissected remyelinated, demyelinated active, and demyelinated inactive white matter MS lesions, and compared transcript levels of myelination and inflammation-related genes using quantitative PCR on customized TaqMan Low Density Arrays. In remyelinated lesions, fibroblast growth factor (FGF) 1 was the most abundant of all analyzed myelination-regulating factors, showed a trend towards higher expression as compared to demyelinated lesions and was significantly higher than in control white matter. Two MS tissue blocks comprised lesions with adjacent de- and remyelinated areas and FGF1 expression was higher in the remyelinated rim compared to the demyelinated lesion core. In functional experiments, FGF1 accelerated developmental myelination in dissociated mixed cultures and promoted remyelination in slice cultures, whereas it decelerated differentiation of purified primary oligodendrocytes, suggesting that promotion of remyelination by FGF1 is based on an indirect mechanism. The analysis of human astrocyte responses to FGF1 by genome wide expression profiling showed that FGF1 induced the expression of the chemokine CXCL8 and leukemia inhibitory factor, two factors implicated in recruitment of oligodendrocytes and promotion of remyelination. Together, this study presents a transcript profiling of remyelinated MS lesions and identified FGF1 as a promoter of remyelination. Modulation of FGF family members might improve myelin repair in MS.

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Country Count As %
Spain 1 1%
Sweden 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 70 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 23%
Researcher 15 21%
Student > Master 11 15%
Student > Bachelor 9 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 9 12%
Unknown 7 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Neuroscience 20 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 9 12%
Engineering 2 3%
Other 4 5%
Unknown 11 15%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 October 2015.
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