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How do axons regenerate?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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Macrophages will remove the debris of the myelin

sheath and other cellular items. The axon may begin to regrow into a tube that is created by remaining membrane and connective tissue, having been influenced by the nerve growth factors that comes from neuroglial

cells that are nearby. At the same time, remaining Schwann

cells will multiply and form a new myelin

sheath around the axon.

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Neurons are amitotic- they do not reproduce. However, research has been done on the production of new neurons in adults from neural stem cells (adult neurogenesis).

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Neurons are the only cells in the human body that cannot regenerate.

Hence brain damage of any sort is irreversible, and permanent.

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The axon, to some degree.

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