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Record W4416389076 · doi:10.1093/brain/awaf441

Routes of precursors’ migration in remyelination

2025· article· en· W4416389076 on OpenAlexafffund
Majid Ghareghani, Samira Ghorbani

Bibliographic record

VenueBrain · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms
Canadian institutionsAmgen (Canada)University of Toronto
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsRemyelinationOligodendrocyteMyelinSubventricular zoneStem cellEndogenyNeural stem cell

Abstract

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Remyelination, the biological process of restoring myelin sheaths, is critically dependent on the successful recruitment of oligodendrocyte lineage cells. However, this process involves at least two functionally distinct endogenous reservoirs: the widely distributed parenchymal oligodendrocyte precursor cells (pOPCs) and neural stem cells (NSCs) originating from the subventricular zone (SVZ). Emerging evidence reveals that these populations employ different migratory strategies. The pOPC response is characterized by rapid local proliferation but severely constrained, short-range migration, often limited by an inhibitory lesion microenvironment. In contrast, SVZ-derived precursors, including fate-switching neuroblasts, are capable of long-range, adaptive migrations, navigating complex routes by co-opting both vascular and parenchymal scaffolds. This review synthesizes these divergent phenomena into a unifying model of competing migratory programmes. We posit that the success or failure of endogenous repair depends on a dynamic interplay between the limited local pOPC response and the recruitment of the more plastic, long-range SVZ-derived cohort. We examine how the oligovascular niche and pivotal signalling cascades, including Wingless/Int-1-β-catenin (Wnt/β-catenin), bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), and sonic hedgehog/glioma-associated oncogene (Shh/Gli), function as critical regulators in this process, dictating which migratory strategy predominates in a given pathological context. Viewing remyelination as a dynamic balance between these two cellular systems helps explain why this repair process often fails. Ultimately, understanding these migratory programmes as an interconnected system, rather than as isolated components, is essential for developing more effective interventions that promote functional myelin repair in demyelinating diseases.

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Teacher imitation

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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
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 score0.033
Threshold uncertainty score0.221

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

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

Opus teacher head0.022
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.258 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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