Peptide Promotes Nerve Regrowth

[Guest guest]

FYI this was posted on the Hum Molgen Bulletin Board last week. I was

wondering if it could help those of us with CMT? ~ G

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Peptide Promotes Nerve Regrowth

Topic: Peptide Promotes Nerve Regrowth

A protein fragment called NEP1-40, or similar molecules, could allow

damaged nerves to grow back after spinal injuries, stroke, multiple

sclerosis or brain trauma.

The peptide blocks another, called Nogo-66, which stops that recovery.

So, in rats at least, NEP1-40 promotes significant regrowth in cells of

injured spine and cortex, report M. Strittmatter and colleagues

of the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, in

this week’s Nature (Vol. 417, No. 6888, 30 May 02, pp. 547-551).

[Guest guest]

I wonder where you get peptide?

Thanks G