Publications de Nicholas David James

Single-cell and spatial atlases of spinal cord injury in the Tabulae Paralytica

Bernard Schneider, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Michael V. Sofroniew, Jocelyne Bloch, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Thomas Haynes Hutson, Michael Alexander Skinnider

Here, we introduce the Tabulae Paralytica—a compilation of four atlases of spinal cord injury (SCI) comprising a single-nucleus transcriptome atlas of half a million cells, a multiome atlas pairing transcriptomic and epigenomic measurements within the same ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Hypothalamic deep brain stimulation augments walking after spinal cord injury

Léonie Asboth, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Kay Alexander Bartholdi, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Mark Andrew Anderson, Nicolas Hankov, Katia Galan, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Newton Cho, Jocelyne Bloch, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Jimmy James Ravier, Thomas Haynes Hutson, Viviana Aureli

A spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts the neuronal projections from the brain to the region of the spinal cord that produces walking, leading to various degrees of paralysis. Here, we aimed to identify brain regions that steer the recovery of walking after i ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2024

Recovery of walking after paralysis by regenerating characterized neurons to their natural target region

Bernard Schneider, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Mark Andrew Anderson, Katia Galan, Newton Cho, Jocelyne Bloch, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Marco Milano, Jordan Squair, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Anna Lasne, Thomas Haynes Hutson, Steven Lee Ceto, Michael Alexander Skinnider

Axon regeneration can be induced across anatomically complete spinal cord injury (SCI), but robust functional restoration has been elusive. Whether restoring neurological functions requires directed regeneration of axons from specific neuronal subpopulatio ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2023

Epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical dorsal roots restores voluntary upper limb control in paralyzed monkeys

Tomislav Milekovic, Giuseppe Schiavone, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Katia Galan, Jocelyne Bloch, Nicholas David James

Regaining arm control is a top priority for people with paralysis. Unfortunately, the complexity of the neural mechanisms underlying arm control has limited the effectiveness of neurotechnology approaches. Here, we exploited the neural function of survivin ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

The neurons that restore walking after paralysis

Léonie Asboth, Salif Axel Komi, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Laetitia Danielle Philippine Baud, Katia Galan, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Andreas Rowald, Newton Cho, Jocelyne Bloch, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Jordan Squair, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Kyungjin Kim, Thomas Haynes Hutson, Steven Lee Ceto

A spinal cord injury interrupts pathways from the brain and brainstem that project to the lumbar spinal cord, leading to paralysis. Here we show that spatiotemporal epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of the lumbar spinal cord(1-3) applied during neurore ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Preclinical upper limb neurorobotic platform to assess, rehabilitate, and develop therapies

Stéphanie Lacour, Florent-Valéry Coen, Silvestro Micera, Grégoire Courtine, Selin Anil, Quentin Barraud, Newton Cho, Nicholas David James

Numerous neurorehabilitative, neuroprosthetic, and repair interventions aim to address the consequences of upper limb impairments after neurological disorders. Although these therapies target widely different mechanisms, they share the common need for a pr ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

Neuroprosthetic baroreflex controls haemodynamics after spinal cord injury

Jérôme Gandar, Giuseppe Schiavone, Nicolas Vachicouras, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Salif Axel Komi, Stéphanie Lacour, Arnaud Bichat, Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Kay Alexander Bartholdi, Eduardo Martin Moraud, Marco Capogrosso, Mark Andrew Anderson, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Ileana Ozana Jelescu, Andreas Rowald, Newton Cho, Jocelyne Bloch, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Jordan Squair, Laura Ann McCracken, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Loïs Thomas Romain Mahe, Jimmy James Ravier

Spinal cord injury (SCI) induces haemodynamic instability that threatens survival(1-3), impairs neurological recovery(4,5), increases the risk of cardiovascular disease(6,7), and reduces quality of life(8,9). Haemodynamic instability in this context is due ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Recruitment of upper-limb motoneurons with epidural electrical stimulation of the cervical spinal cord

Giuseppe Schiavone, Florian Dylan Fallegger, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Nathan Antoine Greiner, Simon Borgognon, Nicholas David James, Henri Charles Alexandre Lorach

Epidural electrical stimulation (EES) of lumbosacral sensorimotor circuits improves leg motor control in animals and humans with spinal cord injury (SCI). Upper-limb motor control involves similar circuits, located in the cervical spinal cord, suggesting t ...

Nature Research2021

Confronting false discoveries in single-cell differential expression

Grégoire Courtine, Quentin Barraud, Mark Andrew Anderson, Claudia Kathe, Nicholas David James, Jordan Squair, Matthieu Pierre Gautier, Gioele La Manno, Thomas Haynes Hutson, Rémi Bernard René Hudelle, Michael Alexander Skinnider

Differential expression analysis of single-cell transcriptomics allows scientists to dissect cell-type-specific responses to biological perturbations. Here, the authors show that many commonly used methods are biased and can produce false discoveries. ...

Nature Portfolio2021

Structured nanoscale metallic glass fibres with extreme aspect ratios

Giuseppe Schiavone, Güven Kurtuldu, Inès Richard, Stéphanie Lacour, Grégoire Courtine, Dang Tùng Nguyen, Fabien Sorin, Wei Yan, Yunpeng Qu, Vasiliki Tileli, Nicholas David James, Jordan Squair, Reinis Ignatans

Micro- and nanoscale metallic glasses offer exciting opportunities for both fundamental research and applications in healthcare, micro-engineering, optics and electronics. The scientific and technological challenges associated with the fabrication and util ...

Nature Publishing Group2020

ErbB receptor signaling directly controls oligodendrocyte progenitor cell transformation and spontaneous remyelination after spinal cord injury

Nicholas David James

We recently discovered a novel role for neuregulin-1 (Nrg1) signaling in mediating spontaneous regenerative processes and functional repair after spinal cord injury (SCI). We revealed that Nrg1 is the molecular signal responsible for spontaneous functional ...

2019

Required growth facilitators propel axon regeneration across complete spinal cord injury

Sabry Leonardo Barlatey, Grégoire Courtine, Cheng Wang, Mark Andrew Anderson, Michael V. Sofroniew, Zhigang He, Nicholas David James

Transected axons fail to regrow across anatomically complete spinal cord injuries (SCI) in adults. Diverse molecules can partially facilitate or attenuate axon growth during development or after injury1,2,3, but efficient reversal of this regrowth failure ...

2018

Neuromodulation in the restoration of function after spinal cord injury

Nicholas David James

Neuromodulation, the use of electrical interfaces to alter neuronal activity, has been successful as a treatment approach in several neurological disorders, including deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease and epidural spinal stimulation for chroni ...

2018

Chondroitinase gene therapy improves upper limb function following cervical contusion injury

Bernard Schneider, Nicholas David James

Chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans (CSPGs) are known to be important contributors to the intensely inhibitory environment that prevents tissue repair and regeneration following spinal cord injury. The bacterial enzyme chondroitinase ABC (ChABC) degrades th ...

Elsevier2015