Sentences with phrase «promote axon regeneration»

What his group found is that not only does that promote axon regeneration all the way back down the nerve, but in fact those axons go back to the right areas that they're supposed to get to in the brain — the right brain nuclei — and restore some measures of visual function.

We are further exploring the molecular network in which the Tsc proteins function, and have found that modulation of the growth - promoting mTOR pathway, which is regulated by TSC proteins, can promote axon regeneration in the adult central nervous system.

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In a study published last summer in PLOS ONE, Lee and his colleagues found that the protein p45 promotes nerve regeneration by preventing the axon sheath (known as myelin) from inhibiting regrowth.

They promote regeneration of those axons.