Bill Skaggs wrote:
>> Ian McLeod <ian_mcleod at primus.com.au> writes:
> > Did anyone read the New Scientist article, dated 12 February 2000?
> > Studies on rats and some other animals have shown that the regrowth of
> > neurons in the hippocampus is possible, perhaps in other regions such as
> > the cortex.
>> The "other animals" now include primates.
>> >
> > This sounds amazing to me.. Too amazing.. In a past issue - New
> > Scientist also reported that Prozac had been demonstrated to assist the
> > growth of new neurons in the hippocampus (an area apparantly damaged by
> > depression).
>> As Dag Stenburg says, it has been definitely established. Still, we
> shouldn't make *too* much of it. As far as I know, there are only two
> kinds of nerve cells that have been shown to reproduce in the adult
> mammalian nervous system -- granule cells in the hippocampus and
> olfactory receptor cells in the nose. Most likely few, if any, others
> will be discovered, because it isn't actually all that difficult to
> tell whether dividing neurons are present in a region, and many
> studies of this kind have been done using rodents. Thus, the rule is
> still that neurons in the adult nervous system don't reproduce -- we
> just know now that there are a couple of curious exceptions to the
> rule.
>> -- Bill
Freg Gage's people seem to have found neuronal precursor cells in the
adult mammalian spinal cord. I can't find the reference right now
though. Also, the dorsal root ganglia seem to be a possibility now...
Are there proliferating neuronal precursors in adult rat dorsal root
ganglia?
Ciaroni S, Cecchini T, Cuppini R, Ferri P, Ambrogini P, Bruno C, Del
Grande P
Neurosci Lett 2000 Mar 3;281(1):69-71
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Brian Scott
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"In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and
there is nothing more to know; but in scientific pursuit there is
continual food for discovery and wonder." - Victor Frankenstein
(from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, 1818)
