Friday, August 2, 2013

Scientists decode mechanisms of cell orientation in the brain

Scientists decode mechanisms of cell orientation in the brain
Neurology News & Neuroscience News from Medical News Today

When the central nervous system is injured, oligodendrocyte precursor cells (OPC) migrate to the lesion and synthesize new myelin sheaths on demyelinated axons. Scientists at the Institute of Molecular Cell Biology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now discovered that a distinct protein regulates the direction and movement of OPC toward the wound...

Original Article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/264242.php

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