Sentences with phrase «system injuries axons»

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A team of researchers led by the University of South Carolina's Jeff Twiss just reported an innate repair mechanism in central nervous system axons that might be harnessed to regenerate nerves after brain or spinal cord injuries.

Deppmann and his graduate student, Kanchana Gamage, the study's lead author, believe that axons communicate the death message to each other during injury as a leftover activity, «borrowed» from the nervous system's developmental period when axons are overproduced and then improper or unnecessary connections are eliminated by a similar communication between axons.

The Yale team found more than 580 different genes that may play a role in regeneration of axons in nerve cells, something that rarely occurs in adult mammals but is of vital interest to scientists hoping to repair injuries to the central nervous system.