PirB es un receptor funcional para los inhibidores de la mielina de la regeneración axonal

Jasvinder K Atwal1, Julie Pinkston-Gosse, Josh Syken

  • 1Neurodegeneration Labs and Research Drug Discovery, Genentech, 1 DNA Way, South San Francisco, CA 94080, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|November 8, 2008
PubMed
Resumen

El receptor B pareado similar a la inmunoglobulina (PirB) es un nuevo receptor para los inhibidores asociados a la mielina de la regeneración del axón. El bloqueo de la actividad de los receptores PirB y Nogo (NgR) promueve el crecimiento significativo de los axones después de una lesión.

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