(Medical Xpress)—When minor wounds heal, the fine nerve endings that sense touch, or control sweating, are usually able to regrow. Like many processes in the body, the ability to regenerate new tissues changes throughout ...
Traumatic injuries to the peripheral nervous system are a leading cause of disability, especially in patients with proximal peripheral nerve injury. It's hard to regenerate and regain normal function in a short period, and ...
Mar 7, 2024
0
57
Research led by UCL, in partnership with the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC LMB) and AstraZeneca, has identified a new compound that can stimulate nerve regeneration after injury, as well as protect cardiac tissue ...
May 24, 2023
0
135
Traumatic injury to the brain, spinal cord and optic nerve in the central nervous system (CNS) are the leading cause of disability and the second leading cause of death worldwide. CNS injuries often result in a catastrophic ...
Jan 19, 2023
0
1470
How the immune system responds to injury in many organs and tissues allows and enables their repair and regeneration. Yet for some species like humans, damage to organs such as the brain, spinal cord, or heart is irreversible. ...
Sep 20, 2022
0
39
Widely used for modern biomedical research, zebrafish share more than 70 percent of the human genome and possess the impressive power of regeneration. Dr. Sandra Rieger's research on appendage regeneration and nerve damage ...
Aug 16, 2022
1
1470
Scientists from the University of Birmingham have shown that a brain-penetrating candidate drug currently in development as a cancer therapy can foster regeneration of damaged nerves after spinal trauma.
Jul 12, 2022
0
2019
Many neurodegenerative conditions, from glaucoma to Alzheimer's disease, are characterized by injury to axons—the long, slender projections that conduct electrical impulses from one nerve cell to another, facilitating cellular ...
Dec 14, 2020
0
354
Harvard Medical School scientists have successfully restored vision in mice by turning back the clock on aged eye cells in the retina to recapture youthful gene function.
Dec 2, 2020
2
2769
University of South Carolina scientists are exploring ways to make nerve regeneration happen faster and more successfully.
Oct 15, 2020
0
42
