Science makes progress. One decade outdoes the next. No one thought that we
would have computers on our desks and in our dens which are more powerful
then the computers that went to the moon and were housed in rooms. Vaccines
have been discovered and we can clone mammals. Fifty years ago this would
have been unthinkable.

Joyce
----- Original Message -----
From: Bobby Greer <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2000 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: Discovery of Brain Protein


> When a person has a brain or spinal cord injury, nerve cells called
neurons
> often survive, but axons, the long connections
> between neurons, are clipped, according to Dr. Stephen M. Strittmatter, of
> Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven,
> Connecticut. Unlike axons in other parts of the body, those in the brain
> and spinal cord -- the central nervous system -- do not
> regenerate after they have been damaged, he explained.
>
>
> This goes against everything I have ever been taught about the nervous
system.
> It is the neuron that can not regenerate, not the axon. Could I have been
> wrong all this time? (If so, it would not be the first time!)
>
> Bobby