http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/November2006/01/c6487.html
November 1, 2006 (CNW Group)- An international team of scientists, lead<BR>by Dr. Frederic Charron at the IRCM, and Drs Ami Okada, Sue McConnell, and Marc Tessier-Lavigne in the USA, have made a discovery which could help treat spinal cord injuries and neurodegenerative diseases. This new finding will be published in the next issue of the prestigious scientific journal Nature.<BR> The brain is composed of billions of neurons that must connect their<BR>axons with an appropriate set of targets to form the neuronal circuits that<BR>underlie its function. Developing axons are guided to their targets by<BR>attractive and repulsive guidance molecules. Inappropriate wiring or damage of these neuronal connections leads to severe abnormalities of the nervous<BR>system…