Talk about a mixed blessing. A pair of new studies shows that immune cells known as macrophages can do an injured neuron good, or can impart further harm.
NEURON BULLIES This image from a new study published September 17 in the Journal of Neuroscience shows an axon from a spinal cord neuron struggling to grow.
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