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Regeneration of an adult peripheral nerve preparation in culture
1Department of Animal Physiology, University of Lund, Sweden.
Molecular Neurobiology
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The methods used to maintain the vagus nerve from the adult rat in culture and how regeneration is studied in this preparation are described. A hypothesis is presented on the triggering of the cell body reaction. It is suggested that this reaction is initiated by proteins synthesized in nonneuronal cells at the site of a nerve lesion. These proteins, referred to as regenerins, reach the nerve cell body by retrograde axonal transport, where they initiate the regeneration process.

