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UT Team Figures Out How To ‘Glue’ Injured Nerves Back Together

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Mind/Brain

UT Team Figures Out How To ‘Glue’ Injured Nerves Back Together
yellow tube of multipurpose glue on wooden board with drops


Nerve injuries of all types are terrible events for anyone experiencing them.

And the outlook is generally-poor, because we really don’t heal as well as Dr. Connors in The Amazing Spiderman.

So George Bittner’s UT team has come up with the obvious solution: Turn people into crocodiles.

They soon discovered that was really hard to do. So for the time being, they came up with a workaround: Stop the ‘scarring’ process & get things back together.

 
You see, when a nerve injury happens the end of it loses connection, eventually dies & the root or branch it was on doesn’t re-connect very well before that happens.

It more or less +/- ‘scars’ over capping the ends off, or sometimes forms a node-like ball at the end if it tries to grow too much.

 
But what George’s team discovered was the exact step-by-step procedure that happens immediately-following the injury,

…And ala MTV Cribs: This Is Where The Magic Happens!

 
First, they Stopped the healing/scarring process with chemicals that get in the way.

Then, they get the ends of the nerves Super-duper close to each other; -but without the insane process of trying to stitch them together.

Thirdly, a type of gel is then injected between the ends and serves as a little bit of a patch, or even a glue.

 
But the sweet bit is, that at this point, the nerve ends are So Close Together, they can pick up the chemical signals of each other through this body-friendly gel.

The branch sniffs out the end, sends out connectors, and then hooks back up with it.

After that, the doctors undo the anti-healing rinse with one that gets it going again, and…


Within 4 weeks, 80-90% of original function is regained! -BOOM!


Hopefully, applications on real actual people will start soon. Check out the more specific details at the Links:


Photo Credits: “Glue”, by Joel Kingsbury


Links
• Source: UT-Alcade
• via: Gizmag
• More Coverage: NewScientist (w/ surgery video)
• Source Study:APS-Vesicle-Mediated Restoration of a Plasmalemmal Barrier in Severed Axons

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By: Will  /  December 18, 2014  /  Comment

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