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NERVE REGENERATION

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JEWEL
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10/11/04 - 11:51 PM

CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME AN EASIER WAY ABOUT NERVE REGENERATION?
I'D REALLY APPRECIATE IT..I'M GETTING BLOCKED WHEN I READ ABOUT IT.

rdsa3
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10/12/04 - 03:06 AM

cranial nerves dont regenerate
only peripheral nerves do
after an injury the region distal to the injury degerates and cleared by macrophages .
and then the microfibrs in the proximal part of the injured close to cell body starts growing and as usual enter in to the dispersed schwann cells and becomes myelinated .

and then this takes the new nerve thru to its original path .

this is the basic of nerve regeneration and there are other less usual types too very tough to remember at this time .

hope this was useful

mjl1717
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10/12/04 - 08:13 AM

Bipolar neurons in the olfactory epithelium undergo continuous regeneration.

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mjl1717
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10/12/04 - 08:14 AM

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rdsa3
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10/13/04 - 09:19 AM

axons in brain cannot regenerate because they lack schwan cells and the lesion after injury is filled fast by glial scars .

edgardny
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11/11/04 - 07:26 PM

mjl17171 I don't know if CN I regenerate or that they activively divide in the adult. Books say divide.

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