ATF3 is also expressed in injured neurons after spinal cord injury (Huang et al., 2007; Wang et al., 2015; Darlot et al., 2017), traumatic brain injury (Förstner et al., 2018), and ischemic stroke (Song et al., 2011), making the line useful to scientists interested in the neuronal response to each of those pathologies. The gene discussed is ATF3; the disease is ischemic stroke.