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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

The benefits of the waiting game

Delaying transplants and exogenous neurotrophic factors administration after spinal cord injury leads to better spinal cord regeneration.

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011206-02

Published

6 December 2001

Axonal regrowth following a spinal cord injury is limited and has its peak in intensity immediately after the injury. But, in December 1 Journal of Neuroscience, Jean Coumans and colleagues from Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC, show that delaying treatment with transplants and exogenous neurotrophic factors after spinal cord injury results in more permissive conditions for spinal cord regeneration and functional recovery.

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