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Treatment synergy in axon regeneration

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Injured mouse retinal ganglion cells, upon a combination of treatments, can regrow their axons along the entire optic pathway and re-establish connections with their correct brain targets. This can partially restore function.

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Figure 1: Combinatorial treatment drives retinal ganglion cell (RGC) axons regrowth and reconnection with their correct brain targets.

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  1. Jacek Krol and Botond Roska are in the Neural Circuit Laboratories, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland, and,

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  2. Botond Roska is on the Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.,

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Krol, J., Roska, B. Treatment synergy in axon regeneration. Nat Neurosci 19, 983–984 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4344

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