现在，加州大学旧金山分校的研究人员发现了一种很少被研究的细胞类型是如何控制脊髓损伤中疤痕组织的形成的。研究小组在小鼠身上发现，激活这些细胞内的分子通路，可以让它们控制脊髓瘢痕的水平。这项新研究发表在9月18日的《自然》杂志上。

David Julius and Wendy Yue have discovered a natural mechanism that could help reduce scarring after a spinal cord injury.

After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to ...

The underlying mechanisms of central nervous system regulation of age-dependent obesity remain unclear. Here, the authors show hypothalamic SLC7A14 plays a role in age-induced lipolysis impairment ...

Authors: The other authors were Kouki Touhara, Kenichi Toma, and Xin Duan of UCSF. Funding: The work was supported by a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Hanna Gray Fellowship, a Croucher Fellowship ...

Regeneration and repair in the nervous system is a process by which damaged tissue undergoes regrowth or renewal, leading to eventual restoration of nervous system function. This process happens ...