Grafts made of the enzyme chonrdoitinase and fibroblast growth factor and applied to the spinal cord injury site generated nerve re-growth of up to 12 mm.
The re-grown nerves facilitated improved bladder function in treated mice as compared to untreated mice, which is a first-time result in nerve regeneration studies thus far.
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