Kanje M
Department of Animal Physiology, University of Lund, Sweden.
Mol Neurobiol. 1992 Summer-Fall;6(2-3):217-23. doi: 10.1007/BF02780554.
The methods used to maintain the vagus nerve from the adult rat in culture and how regeneration is studied in this preparation are described. A hypothesis is presented on the triggering of the cell body reaction. It is suggested that this reaction is initiated by proteins synthesized in nonneuronal cells at the site of a nerve lesion. These proteins, referred to as regenerins, reach the nerve cell body by retrograde axonal transport, where they initiate the regeneration process.
