Nervegrowth (IMAGE)

Duke University

Nervegrowth

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Very small tubes filled with two kinds of growth factors show the regrowth of damaged nerve fibers (central area). On the right is a chemical signal that transforms immune system macrophages into healing cells. On the left is a more robust nerve grown with a signal that recruits undifferentiated cells and makes them specialize as pro-healing macrophages.

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Ravi Bellamkonda, Duke University

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