Antibodies are essential for successful regeneration after nerve damage reports a team from Stanford University School of Medicine. This finding may explain why nerve damage in the central nervous system, which lacks antibodies, isn't naturally repaired -- circulating antibodies can gain access to and help repair damage in the peripheral nervous system. Apparently, antibodies may be necessary to clear away the myelin insulation that coats the axon of nerve cells -- degenerating myelin is strongly inhibitory to regenerating axons.
Seems to me that this research could possibly lead to a treatment for central nervous system damage -- stroke and spinal-cord trauma.
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