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The ABC of spinal recovery
Email: Tudor Toma - t.toma@ic.ac.uk News from The Scientist 2002, 3(1):20020412-03
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Spinal-cord section is untreatable because the severed nerve fibers cannot regrow through chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans rich scar tissue. In April 11 Nature, Elizabeth Bradbury and colleagues from Kings College London, show that a bacterial enzyme degrading chondroitin sulfate (chondroitinase ABC –ChABC), promotes functional recovery after spinal cord injury in rats (Nature 2002, 416:636-640).
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