Taiwan English News
Date: 2019/05/07

Injuries to the central nervous system are notoriously difficult to recover from, because brain and spinal cord neurons tend not to grow back after they’re severed. But a new finding by Taiwanese and Japanese scientists could offer a way to activate nerve regrowth. Researchers found that long-chain sugars called heparin sulfates can be chemically modified to encourage a nerve to repair itself. Their findings, published in the latest Nature Chemical Biology journal, hold out new hope for patients suffering from paralysis.

Researchers from Academia Sinica and Japan’s Nagoya University jointly published new promising findings. They discovered that synthetic heparan sulfates can initiate the nerve’s repair mechanism after an injury to the central nervous system.   [FULL  STORY]