The body's natural response to form a scar at the injury site reduces the spread of inflammation but deters the growth of severed nerve fibers. (sciencedaily.com)
In a study appearing online the week of June 12 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Duke University have shown that summoning these pro-healing macrophages can greatly help regrow severed nerves in rats. (sciencedaily.com)
Christine Radtke is working to use spider silk to reconnect severed nerve fibres Radtke and her colleagues at the Medical University of Hannover, from whence the surgeon transferred to Vienna in October 2016, developed a new microsurgical technique that involves filling the veins with spider silk to form a longitudinal guide structure. (sciencedaily.com)