Thursday, April 10, 2008

Blood vessels: The pied piper for growing nerve cells

Source: Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
Date: April 10, 2008

Summary:

Researchers at Johns Hopkins have discovered that blood vessels in the head can guide growing facial nerve cells with blood pressure controlling proteins. The findings, which suggest that blood vessels throughout the body might have the same power of persuasion over many nerves, are published this week in Nature.