28 September 2024
Growing Nervous
Regeneration after damage of the central nervous system is limited. This study finds that suppressing activity of a gene called Lipin1 leads to significant regrowth of sensory and motor nerve axons (the signal-transmitting projections) after spinal cord injury
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- Video from work by Weitao Chen, Junqiang Wu and Chao Yang, and colleagues
- Biomedical Research Institute, Shenzhen Peking University–The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Medical Center, Shenzhen, China
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), September 2024
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