As with all brain rat research (thousands of papers I guess) my hope is always raised for a while but soon the research paper is forgotten.
I wonder if TGF Alpha is a new discovery? has any one heard of it before?
How differnt is rat brain differs from that of humans in its reaction to drugs?
Any way the big claim of this paper is:
"It's becoming more and more clear that the brain is like any other organ: It has a lot of potential to regenerate," said Darius Gleason, a developmental & cell biology graduate student who worked on the study. "We are just emulating nature by giving a little nudge to what the brain is trying to do itself."
I can only pray that this will be true one day
Imad