US scientists may have discovered why long nerve cells do not break when you move or stretch your limbs. Experiments in worms showed that when a protein called beta spectrin is missing, nerve cells are brittle and break, leading to paralysis.
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Nerve cell stretchiness uncovered - BBC Health News 18th August 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
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