Magnetic nanoparticles guide neurite growth in dopaminergic cells
Magnetic nanoparticles raise hopes of treatments for Parkinson’s.
One reason why nerve damage in the brain cannot regenerate easily is that the neurites do not know in which direction they should grow. A team of researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), Sorbonne University Paris, and the Technische Universität Braunschweig is now working on showing them the direction using magnetic nanoparticles.
The team led by Professor Rolf Heumann, Senior Researcher for Molecular Neurobiochemistry at RUB, is hoping that this will allow the effects of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson s to be alleviated over the long term. The results of the work were published on 31 December 2020 in the journal