nerve regeneration
Fiber repair process
Nerve regeneration is the regrowth or repair of damaged nerve tissue.
Peripheral nerves can often regenerate slowly after injury, while central nervous system nerves—in the brain and spinal cord—have limited regenerative capacity.
The term appears in medical contexts discussing recovery from injuries or diseases affecting the nervous system: Researchers are exploring ways to promote nerve regeneration after spinal cord damage.
- axonNeuron's signal-sending projection
- neuronImpulse-conducting cell
- spinal cord injuryDamage to backbone's neural tissue
- myelin sheathLipid layer around axons
- stem cell therapyTreatment using primordial cells
neural plasticity · rewiring · neuroprosthetics · gene therapy · growth factors · numbness · pins and needles · pathway · growth · damage · scar tissue · synapse · tingling · motor function · healing · spinal · reconnection · recovery
nerve regenerationneurodegeneration
Progressive loss of neurons
nerve damage · demyelination · nerve injury · neuropathy · apoptosis
nerve regenerationdenervation
Loss of nerve supply
paralysis · motor neuron disease · ALS · multiple sclerosis · Parkinson's disease