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Stephane Belin1, Michael Norsworthy1, Zhigang He1
1F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center, Children's Hospital, and Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Cell Metabolism
|March 11, 2014
Abstract:
Axon regeneration capacity often declines with age. One might assume that loss of regeneration is an obvious consequence of organismal aging. However, in the latest issue of Neuron, Byrne et al. (2014) demonstrate that regeneration ability and aging are regulated cell-autonomously within neurons, and can be decoupled.

