Central Nervous System Injury

Youth Restored To Adult Neurons

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, September 6th, 2001

by Deborah W. Heinrich, PhD, staff medical writer - Using gene therapy, researchers in Salt Lake City, Utah have restored the regenerative capacity of adult neurons.

In order to recover from injury to the central nervous system (CNS), neuronal regeneration is a prerequisite. Unfortunately for adults, the capacity for mature neurons to regenerate is drastically reduced as compared to that of embryonic neurons.

M.L. Condic and colleagues in the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at the University of Utah sought the factors that allow young neurons to regenerate so readily where adult neurons fail. What they found was illuminating and led to the...

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