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Nervous System Repair

Damage to the nervous system can occur through injury or disease and often results in permanent loss of function. Researchers at the Open University use tissue engineering and regenerative medicine techniques to model and repair the damaged nervous system. Specific projects seek to model and overcome the inhibitory interfaces that develop in the CNS following injury, to develop tissue engineered repair devices for repairing traumatic injuries to the spinal cord and peripheral nerves, to understand the role of stem cells in nervous system development and develop cell therapies for nervous system repair and to investigate oligodendrocyte development and myelinogenesis.
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