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Article: Class of molecules stimulate optic nerve regeneration.
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- Biotech Business Week
- Article date:
- September 29, 2003
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2003 SEP 29 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Boston Life Sciences, Inc., (BLSI), a development stage biotechnology company, announced that scientists at Boston Children's Hospital and BLSI have identified specific carbohydrates (sugars) capable of stimulating optic nerve regeneration.
This discovery also provides an explanation as to why fish and amphibia retain the ability to regenerate their optic nerves after injury and why mammals (including humans) have lost this ability. The findings are published in the current issue of the Journal of Neuroscience and are the subject of a featured review in the journal.
Fish and amphibia are known to be capable of ...