Sequential therapies trigger axon regeneration in spinal cord injury

University of California Los Angeles and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) researchers showed delivery of three sequential therapies could trigger axon growth after complete spinal cord injury in rodents, suggesting the combination approach could repair propriospinal axons that have been damaged in humans with spinal cord injuries.

While individual molecules can partially stimulate the repair of damaged axons, methods to efficiently and fully drive axon regeneration following spinal cord injury have not been developed...