Publication Date:
2014-12-18
Description:
Article A potential therapeutic strategy for spinal cord injury (SCI) is to maintain continuity of damaged axons after contusion, but the viability of such strategies depends on the degree to which initially injured axons can recover. Here the authors use morphological and molecular in vivo imaging after contusion SCI in mice, to show that injured axons persist in a metastable state for hours. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms6683 Authors: Philip R. Williams, Bogdan-Nicolae Marincu, Catherine D. Sorbara, Christoph F. Mahler, Adrian-Minh Schumacher, Oliver Griesbeck, Martin Kerschensteiner, Thomas Misgeld
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics