ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Rewiring gene regulatory circuits to enhance central nervous system repair
The mammalian central nervous system (CNS) is the epitome of complex cellular architecture. Still, it has a limited capacity to self-repair after an injury, which contrasts with the regenerative potential of the CNS in lower vertebrates. Regeneration unfolds by the orchestrated triggering of developmental gene expression programs after injury. These programs are under the control of dedicated regeneration enhancer elements, which grant adult cells transcriptional access to developmental genes. Neural stem cells in the mammalian CNS lack the gene regulatory circuits that dictate when and where to activate the expression of developmental genes for regeneration. Consequently, most of the cells…
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