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Record W4412097401 · doi:10.1186/s13619-025-00247-9

Schwann cells modified to secrete MANF is a potential cellular therapy for peripheral nerve regeneration

2025· article· en· W4412097401 on OpenAlex
Bhadrapriya Sivakumar, V. Martinez, Nickson Joseph, Johnson V. John, Anil Kumar, Anand Krishnan

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Bibliographic record

VenueCell Regeneration · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNerve injury and regeneration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of SaskatchewanCameco (Canada)
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaUniversity of Saskatchewan
KeywordsRegeneration (biology)AxonNeurotrophic factorsNeuroscienceNerve guidance conduitNerve growth factorSchwann cellNeurotrophinBiologyAstrocyteCell biologyCentral nervous system

Abstract

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Effective therapies for peripheral nerve repair are still lacking despite active research in this field over the past years. The limited knowledge of biomolecules that equally promote axon regeneration and glial cell dynamics, which are critical for nerve regeneration, poses a major challenge in developing effective therapies. Here, we showed that the neurotrophic factor mesencephalic astrocyte-derived neurotrophic factor (MANF) equally promotes axon regeneration and glial cell dynamics favorable for nerve regeneration. Using adult rodent models, we showed that the endogenous expression of MANF is restricted to non-peptidergic sensory neurons. However, supplementation of exogenous MANF promoted the growth of all subtypes of adult sensory neurons. We also demonstrated that exogenous MANF promotes the proliferation and migration of adult primary Schwann Cells (SCs). Furthermore, we showed that local and repeated administration of MANF to injured nerves promotes axon regeneration in mice models. Finally, we devised a therapeutic approach by programming nerve-resident SCs to locally and continuously deliver MANF to injured nerves and showed that this approach improves axon regeneration. Overall, this work developed a therapeutic approach by harnessing the power of SCs as a local delivery system for MANF for nerve repair.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.360
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.265
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it