Publications Highlights

Nature Neuroscience

Authors: Laureen D. Hachem, Homeira Moradi Chameh, Gustavo Balbinot, Andrea J. Mothe, Alain Pacis, Rui Tong Geng Li, Taufik A. Valiante, Wei Lu, Charles H. Tator & Michael G. Fehlings 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-025-02044-8 

Authors:

Subodh Verma, Lawrence A Leiter, Hwee Teoh, G B John Mancini, Adrian Quan, Randi Elituv, Meena Verma, Elizabeth Misner, Michael Szarek,
Kevin E Thorpe, Tarit Saha, Richard P Whitlock, Bobby Yanagawa, Béla Merkely, Peter Jüni, Michael J Koren, Stephen J Nicholls, Deepak L Bhatt,
C David Mazer

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01633-2/fulltext?rss=yes

Authors:

Michael G. Fehlings, Karlo M. Pedro, Mohammed Ali Alvi, Ali Moghaddamjou, James S. Harrop, Ralph Stanford, Jonathon Ball, Bizhan Aarabi, Paul M. Arnold, James D. Guest, Shekar N. Kurpad, James M. Schuster, Ahmad N. Nassr, Karl M. Schmitt, Jefferson R. Wilson, Darrel S. Brodke, Faiz U. Ahmad, Albert Yee, Wilson Z. Ray, Nathaniel P. Brooks, Jason Wilson, Diana S-L. Chow, Elizabeth G. Toups, Kevin E. Thorpe, Jiaxin Huang, Peng Huang.
The sodium-glutamate antagonist riluzole improves outcome after acute spinal cord injury: results from the RISCIS randomised controlled trial analysed using a global statistical analytic technique, eBioMedicine, Volume 118, 2025, 105863, ISSN 2352-3964,

To be published in EBioMedicine: "The Sodium-Glutamate Antagonist Riluzole Improves Outcome after Acute Spinal Cord Injury: Results from the RISCIS Randomised Controlled Trial Analysed Using a Global Statistical Analytic Technique"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235239642500307X

Authors:

Armaan K. Malhotra, M.D. https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1759-7160, Amol A. Verma, M.D., M.Phil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6857-931X, Christopher W. Smith, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1270-809X, Husain Shakil, M.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3995-6811, Muhammad Mamdani, Pharm.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5199-6344, Laura C. Rosella, M.H.Sc., Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4867-869X, Christopher D. Witiw, M.D., M.S. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3999-7632, and Jefferson R. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. 

Published August 14, 2025 in NEJM AI; DOI: 10.1056/AIp2500154

https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIp2500154

Dr. Michael Fehlings

To be published in Nature Neuroscience: "Augmenting AMPA receptor signaling following spinal cord injury increases ependymal-derived stem/progenitor cell (epNSPC) migration and promotes functional recovery"

Authors:

Zhen Zhang ^1 2, Dorothy Lee ^2 3, Lingya Liu ⁴, Yi Xiong ^1 5, Carol Lee ², Ji-Eun Kim ⁶, Sinobol Chusilp ², Ethan Lau ², Yina Tian ², Mehrsa Feizi ², Mashriq Alganabi ², Anthea Lafreniere ⁷, Tianran Cheng ¹, Ruijie Zhou ¹, Lu Han ⁴, Lihua Wu ⁴, Ping Xiao ⁸, Ya Gao ⁴, Giada Benedetti ⁹, Lucy Holland ⁹, Lucinda Tullie ^9 10, Giovanni Giuseppe Giobbe ⁹, Long Li ¹, Qi Li ¹, Atsuyuki Yamataka ¹¹, Vivian S W Li ¹⁰, Paolo De Coppi ^9 12, Qian Jiang ^4 13 14, Agostino Pierro ^2 3, Bo Li ²

30 Jul 2025; Vol 17, Issue 809; DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adp4679

Science Translational Medicine: Impairment of stromal-epithelial regenerative cross-talk in Hirschsprung disease primes for the progression to enterocolitis