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Media coverage:

Independent on Sunday (2011) Of mice and men.

BBC News (2002) Severed spinal cord regenerated.

Olson L (2002) News and Views: Clearing a path for nerve growth Nature 416: 589-590.

Independent (2002) 'Molecular machete' used to repair spinal cord injuries

Ananthaswamy (2002) To help nerves regrow, first find your machete New Scientist

Wickelgren (2002) Animal studies raise hope for spinal cord repair Science

Jones (2001) Coming together New Scientist

Berger (2001) Dissolving sugar helps nerve regeneration British Medical Journal

Most cited papers:

Bradbury EJ, Moon LDF, Popat RJ, King VR, Bennett GS, Patel PN, Priestley JV, Fawcett JW, McMahon SB (2002) Chondroitinase ABC promotes axon regeneration and functional recovery following spinal cord injury.  Nature 416:636-40.

Moon LDF, Asher RA, Rhodes KE, Fawcett JW (2001) Regeneration of CNS axons back to their target following treatment of adult rat brain with chondroitinase ABC. Nature Neuroscience 4:465-466.

Thuret S, Moon LDF and Gage FH (2006) Therapeutic strategies for SCI. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 7(8) 628-643.

Suggested reading Moon et al., 2001 Thuret et al., 2006 Bradbury et al., 2002