{"id":208927,"date":"2025-03-17T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/cell-permeable-peptide-shows-promise-in-nerve-cell-regeneration"},"modified":"2025-03-17T12:28:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T17:28:21","slug":"cell-permeable-peptide-shows-promise-in-nerve-cell-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/cell-permeable-peptide-shows-promise-in-nerve-cell-regeneration","title":{"rendered":"Cell-permeable peptide shows promise in nerve cell regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-permeable-peptide-shows-promise-in-nerve-cell-regeneration3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each year, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), millions of people in the U.S. are affected by spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, along with neuro-developmental and degenerative diseases such as ADHD, autism, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and Parkinson\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor Pabitra Sahoo, of Rutgers University-Newark\u2019s Department of Biological Sciences, has made it his life\u2019s work to understand how our neurological system becomes damaged by these injuries and conditions, and when and how neurons in our central and peripheral nervous systems regenerate and heal.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, Sahoo and his RU-N research team made a breakthrough, using a peptide to help nerve cells in both the peripheral and central nervous systems regenerate. They published their findings in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), millions of people in the U.S. are affected by spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries, along with neuro-developmental and degenerative diseases such as ADHD, autism, cerebral palsy, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and Parkinson\u2019s disease. Assistant Professor Pabitra Sahoo, of Rutgers University-Newark\u2019s Department of Biological [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}