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by Tudor Toma

RESEARCH ROUND-UP

DIY brain repair

Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk
News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020807-04

Published

7 August 2002

The adult brain can generate new neurons in the subventricular zone and dentate gyrus, but it is has been unclear if these cells can migrate to replace those lost following ischaemic damage or disease. In August 5 Nature Medicine, Andreas Arvidsson and colleagues from Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden, show that in rats the adult brain has the capacity of recruiting endogenous neuronal precursors and self-repair after insults causing extensive neuronal death (Nat Med 2002, doi:10.1038/nm747).

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