"Researchers Identify Protein Critical For Wound Healing After Spinal Cord Injury"
Plexin-B2, an axon guidance protein in the central nervous system (CNS), plays an important role in wound healing and neural repair following spinal cord injury (SCI), according to research conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and published today in Nature Neuroscience. "The role of microglia and macrophages in the spatial organization of glial cells around the injury site via an axon guidance receptor is quite unexpected" said lead investigator Hongyan Jenny Zou, MD, PhD, professor of neurosurgery and neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
— Hongyan Jenny Zou, MD, PhD, Professor, Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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