Thursday, March 7, 2013

TBI, SCI & the fly. Recent review.

Nerve injury includes traumatic brain injury (TBI) and spinal cord injury (SCI).

Fang Y, Bonini NM. Axon degeneration and regeneration: insights from Drosophila models of nerve injury. Annu Rev Cell Dev Biol. 2012;28:575-97. doi: 10.1146/annurev-cellbio-101011-155836. Review. PubMed PMID: 22831639.

From the abstract: "Genetically approachable model organisms such as Drosophila melanogaster, the fruit fly, have proven exceptionally successful in modeling human neurodegenerative diseases. More recently, this success has been extended into the field of acute axon injury and regeneration."

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