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    Clinically relevant small-molecule promotes nerve repair and visual function recovery

    Adult mammalian injured axons regenerate over short-distance in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) while the axons in the central nervous system (CNS) are unable to regrow after injury. Here, we demonstrated ...

    Ngan Pan Bennett Au, Gajendra Kumar, Pallavi Asthana in npj Regenerative Medicine (2022)

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    Astrocytes Can Adopt Endothelial Cell Fates in a p53-Dependent Manner

    Astrocytes respond to a variety of CNS injuries by cellular enlargement, process outgrowth, and upregulation of extracellular matrix proteins that function to prevent expansion of the injured region. This astr...

    Andrew J. Brumm, Stefanie Nunez, Mehdi M. Doroudchi in Molecular Neurobiology (2017)

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    Techniques to Study Specific Cell-Surface Receptor-Mediated Cellular Vitamin A Uptake

    STRA6 is a multitransmembrane domain protein that was recently identified as the cell-surface receptor for plasma retinol-binding protein (RBP), the vitamin A carrier protein in the blood. STRA6 binds to RBP w...

    Riki Kawaguchi, Hui Sun in Retinoids (2010)