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Two reasons why injured neurons of the central nervous system fail to regenerate are inhibition by myelin proteins and a signaling pathway that blocks axon growth.
Neuroscience Center, School of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. E-mail: william_snider{at}med.unc.edu
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