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RESEARCH UPDATE! Researchers at Boston Childrens Hospital have developed a skin cream that may relieve a difficult-to-treat form of peripheral neuropathy that affects millions of people in the U.S. As reported in this weeks edition of the medical journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the topical cream tested well in two mouse models of small-fiber neuropathy...: bit.ly/1aIRtHX Because small-fiber neuropathy is known to degenerate the nerve endings of sensory neurons and the loss of a group of factors stimulating nerve growth (GNDF), Gabriel Corfas, PhD (of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Childrens) wondered if replenishing GDNF could improve sensory neurons health and function.
Posted on: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:51:52 +0000

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