Nervous and immune systems ‘need to talk’ for bone repair

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In a December 2019 study, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers demonstrated in mice that repair of bone fractures requires the generation, growth and spread of nerve cells, or neurons, throughout the injured area. This, they showed, partly relies on a protein known as nerve growth factor (NGF). Now, the researchers have dug deeper into this process to better understand how the nervous and immune systems work together with NGF to enable nerve regrowth during bone repair. In a new study, published in the May 26, 2020, issue of the journal Cell Reports, the researchers found once again in …read more

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