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Regeneration of a Peripheral Nerve Implant into Goldfish Telencephalic Parenchyma

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THE nerve fibres of a peripheral nerve implanted in the cortex of the rat1 or cat2,3 do not regenerate into the brain parenchyma. The glial scar which lines the wound made in the parenchyma during nerve implantation seems to be a mechanical barrier to successful regeneration. After nerve implantation and administration of the drug piromen, however, the peripheral axons which formerly had not grown through the glial scar now grow through the scar2,3.

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BERNSTEIN, J. Regeneration of a Peripheral Nerve Implant into Goldfish Telencephalic Parenchyma. Nature 217, 183–184 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/217183a0

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