Self-repair in the brain

Anders Björklund () and Olle Lindvall ()
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Anders Björklund: Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University
Olle Lindvall: Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University

Nature, 2000, vol. 405, issue 6789, 893-895

Abstract: Unlike tissues such as skin and liver, the adult brain has long been thought to have little capacity for self-repair. But new results indicate that, after cells in the cortex are damaged, undifferentiated cells from other regions of the brain may be recruited to replace them.

Date: 2000
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