Endogenous Stem Cell-Based Brain Remodeling in Mammals

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Marie-Pierre Junier, Steven G. Kernie

   Pages 1-3

3. Structural Plasticity in Adult Nervous System: An Historic Perspective

   • Constantino Sotelo, Isabelle Dusart

   Pages 5-41

4. Impact of Injured Tissue on Stem Cell Fate

   • Bobbi Fleiss, Vibol Chhor, Luigi Titomanlio, Stéphane Auvin, Olivier Baud, Pierre Gressens

   Pages 43-56

5. Role of Neural Stem and Progenitor Cells in the Adaptation of the Brain to Injury

   • Sue Hong, Tzong-Shiue Yu, Steven G. Kernie

   Pages 57-85

6. Role of Adult Neurogenesis in Seizure-Induced Hippocampal Remodeling and Epilepsy

   • Alison L. Althaus, Jack M. Parent

   Pages 87-104

7. Neurogenesis and Gliogenesis in the Postnatal Hypothalamus: A New Level of Plasticity for the Regulation of Hypothalamic Function?

   • Ariane Sharif, Sergio R. Ojeda, Vincent Prevot

   Pages 105-136

8. Regenerative Potential of NG2 Cells

   • Jean-Marie Mangin

   Pages 137-158

9. Oligodendrocyte Progenitors and Brain Remodeling Following Blood–Brain Barrier Rupture

   • Praveen Ballabh

   Pages 159-175

10. Genomic Integrity of Embryonic and Neural Stem Cells

    • Nathalie Lefort, Marc Peschanski

    Pages 177-198

11. Links Between Injury-Induced Brain Remodeling and Oncogenesis

    • Elias A. El-Habr, Marie-Pierre Junier

    Pages 199-226

12. Back Matter

    Pages 227-230

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This text highlights the endogenous regenerative potential of the central nervous system in neonates and juveniles and discusses possible ways it might be manipulated for medical purposes. The first section provides a descriptive summary of the salient steps of human brain development with a discussion of comparisons with other mammalian brains. It also provides a historical perspective on our understanding of ongoing brain development throughout the lifespan and serve to introduce the concept of brain plasticity following injury. The second part is devoted to the endogenous reparative potential of the brain, including its limitations, and articles focusing on defined pathologies (e.g. anoxia/hypoxia, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury and stress) in animal models and in humans pinpoint eventual ways these pathologies might be manipulated. The third and final focuses on the "dark side" of stem cells for brain repair or of the manipulation of spontaneous adaptive events after injury (e.g. genomic instability, sensitization to cancerous transformation and defective neural networks).

• NG2
• neurogenesis
• oligodendrocytes
• oncogenesis
• progenitors

From the book reviews:

“A book of interest to researchers studying neurogenesis and regeneration and repair of the nervous tissue after injury. For neurologists, neurosurgeons and biologists.” (Pediatric Endocrinology Reviews (PER), Vol. 12 (1), September, 2014)

• French Institute of Health and Medical Research U1130, French National Center for Scientific Research, Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University, Paris, France

  Marie-Pierre Junier

• Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology & Cell Biology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA

  Steven G. Kernie

Dr. Steven G. Kernie is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology & Cell Biology at Columbia University in New York and Chief of Critical Care Medicine at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital at Columbia University Medical Center. His laboratory is interested in how the brain repairs itself following injury. The presence of adult neural stem and progenitor cells in the mammalian brain has awakened new interest and optimism in potential treatment for a variety of acquired brain disorders. The Kernie lab is investigating how adult neural stem and progenitor cells participate in injury-induced remodeling and in identifying genes and drugs that might be important in augmenting their contribution. In order to do this, they have generated a variety of transgenic mice that allow for temporally controlled alterations in the endogenous stem cell population in order to optimize the post-injury remodeling that occurs.

Dr. Marie-Pierre Junier is Research Director at Inserm and co-PI of team Glial Plasticity for the Center of Research Neuroscience Paris Seine at the University Pierre et Marie Curie. Her team showed the permissiveness of astrocytes to re-programming into immature states akin to neural progenitors or neural stem cells. It further demonstrated that these plastic capabilities of astrocytes sensitize them to cancerous transformation. The team is now using cancer stem cells isolated from human adult and pediatric gliomas to understand their differences from normal human neural stem cells. Combining proteomic, metabolic and epigenetic approaches, the team aims at developing new therapeutic strategies against these devastating cancers.

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