{"id":337,"date":"2021-01-08T00:46:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/?p=337"},"modified":"2021-01-08T00:47:22","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T19:47:22","slug":"breakthrough-for-spinal-injuries-as-aberdeen-university-experts-find-new-way-to-repair-nerves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/breakthrough-for-spinal-injuries-as-aberdeen-university-experts-find-new-way-to-repair-nerves\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough for spinal injuries as Aberdeen university experts find new way to repair nerves"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningexpress.co.uk\/fp\/news\/local\/breakthrough-for-spinal-injuries-as-aberdeen-university-experts-find-new-way-to-repair-nerves\/?fbclid=IwAR0-LCqsOE9RtrFmVr0lstyUyXNiCZ-qOSBDhF0oo_OS292CIt9hqpviwm8\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scientists from the city have managed to regrow spinal nerves in rats after activating a molecule found in nerve cells by using their very own gel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Wenlong Huang, Dr Derryck Shewan and Dr Alba Guijarro-Belmar from Aberdeen University\u2019s Institute of Medical Sciences found triggering a molecule called Epac2 led to \u201csignificant improvement\u201d in the growth of nerves that been severed following injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link Scientists from the city have managed to regrow spinal nerves in rats after activating a molecule found in nerve cells by using their very own gel. Dr Wenlong Huang, Dr Derryck Shewan and Dr Alba Guijarro-Belmar from Aberdeen University\u2019s Institute of Medical Sciences found triggering a molecule called Epac2 led to \u201csignificant improvement\u201d in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growth-factors","tag-growth-factors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/curesteps.org\/SCI\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}