Scientists Identify Protein Required to Regrow Injured Nerves in Limbs (IMAGE)

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Scientists Identify Protein Required to Regrow Injured Nerves in Limbs

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These are images of axon regeneration in mice two weeks after injury to the hind leg’s sciatic nerve. On the left, axons (green) of a normal mouse have regrown to their targets (red) in the muscle. On the right, a mouse lacking DLK shows no axons have regenerated, even after two weeks.

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Jung Eun Shin

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