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From: steve@blblbl.UUCP (Steve Gisselbrecht)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.med,comp.ai,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Neurons can't regenerate? (was: Re: Taking AI models...)
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 02:17:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 22 02:17:09 1987
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Summary: Apocryphal research on regeneration.
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Sorry, folks--I can't cite a source, since it's an article that I read
in a copy of Science News sometime in the misty past, and I no longer
have the magazines to look through.  But here's how I remember it:
     
It seems that they did some work with parrots, and actually got central
nervous system regeneration to occur. (NOT peripheral nervous system, 
which, at the time, was the only thing that had ever shown regeneration
after physical trauma of any kind.)  The key, apparently, was creating
an enzymatic environment similar to that in the peripheral nervous
channels.  Apparently, the work was very promising for a human analogue
someday.

Can anyone clarify or contradict this?

				steve