The Scientist : Rewiring the brain [17/12/2001]

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2001, 2(1):20011217-02

17 December 2001

In simple organisms damaged nerves repair themselves readily, but in mammals the growth of axons is inhibited in the scar tissue that forms after injury. In December Experimental Neurology, Dietmar Fischer and colleagues from University of Münster, Germany, show that lens injury releases molecules that can stimulate significant axonal regeneration throughout the optic nerve of adult rats.

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