How a simple animal sheds light on understanding the degeneration and regeneration of neurons
The year was 1850, and Augustus Volney Waller was beginning to observe the degeneration of the hypoglossal and glossopharyngeal cranial nerves in frogs, which in simple terms control the movement of the throat and tongue. What he reported was that following a damaging stimulus, the damaged nerve would begin to die, and that this degeneration … Read more