Turbocharging neurons for growth: accelerating regeneration in the adult CNS
Clifford J. Woolf
The author is in the Neural Plasticity Research Group, Dept. of Anesthesia & Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, 149 13th St., Charlestown Massachusetts 02129, USA. woolf.clifford@mgh.harvard.edu
Mature central neurons lose their capacity for axon growth, but overexpression of growth-associated proteins restores this potential, which may support spinal cord regeneration.
