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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Glia. 2017 Dec 20;66(5):907–919. doi: 10.1002/glia.23275

Table 1.

Cellular mechanisms that are potentially applicable for genetic engineering of GP migration.

Mechanism Molecule/medium Cell type Reference
Attraction CD44 Astrocyte precursor Bourguignon et al., 2007
CXCL16/CXCR4 axis CXCR6-positive GP Hattermann et al. 2008
PDGF Oligodendrocyte precursor Armstrong et al., 1990
SDF-1-CXC-4 Hematopoetic stem cell Janowski. 2009
MSC Nowakowski et al., 2016
EPC Li et al., 2012
HGF-c-Met Tumor cell Wallace et al., 2013
IGF-1 Cardiac stem cell O’Neill ey al., 2016
Vascular smooth muscle cell Beneit et al., 2016
Repulsion CSPGs GP Yuan et al., 2016
Nestrin 1 Small NG2-positive GP Sugimoto et al., 2001
Sema3a Large NG2-positive GP Sugimoto et al., 2001
Glioma cell line Nasarre et al., 2009
TGFβ1 OPC Choe et al., 2009
EGF Newborn glia Kuhn et al., 2009
Motility regulation AQP4 Astroglia Ding et al, 2011
NCAM GP Wang et al. 1994
Sox5 and Sox6 Oligodendroglial cell Baroti et al., 2016
ZEB-1 Epithelial cancer cell Zhang et al., 2015
NSC Kahlert et al., 2015
Electric field Schwann cells, MSCs, and pluripotent stem cells Iwasa et al. 2017
OPC Zhu et al. 2016