In a break with dogma, myelin boosts neuron growth in spinal cord injuries

(University of California - San Diego) In a new paper, published in the May 23 online issue ofScience Translational Medicine, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report that adult rat myelin actually stimulated axonal outgrowth in rat neural precursor cells (NPCs) and human induced pluripotent (iPSC)-derived neural stem cells (NSCs).
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