{"id":7004,"date":"2024-04-24T09:46:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2024-04-24T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:47:15","slug":"trakhtenberg-lab-seeing-a-path-to-nerve-regeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2024\/04\/24\/trakhtenberg-lab-seeing-a-path-to-nerve-regeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"Trakhtenberg Lab Seeing a Path to Nerve Regeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ephraim Trakhtenberg and his team at UConn showed that a protein called nuclear factor erythroid 3 (Nfe3) can stimulate regrowth of optic nerve cells. \u201cThis opens a whole new novel realm of research. It could help glaucoma and other types of nerve damage,\u201d according to Trakhtenberg.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>A team of researchers in the lab of UConn School of Medicine neuroscientist Ephraim Trakhtenberg have shown that a protein previously thought unimportant can stimulate regrowth of nerve cells. The protein is called nuclear factor erythroid 3 (Nfe3), and it is unique to nerves originating in the retina. Normally it is not produced by adult neurons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please see full article in UConn Today here: <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/03\/seeing-a-path-to-nerve-regeneration\/\">Seeing a Path to Nerve Regeneration &#8211; UConn Today<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/04\/trakhtenberg-UConn-Today.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/04\/trakhtenberg-UConn-Today.jpg\" alt=\"Trahktenberg UConn Magazine\" width=\"272\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7005 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 272px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 272\/175;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2024\/04\/trakhtenberg-UConn-Today.jpg\" alt=\"Trahktenberg UConn Magazine\" width=\"272\" height=\"175\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7005\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ephraim Trakhtenberg and his team at UConn showed that a protein called nuclear factor erythroid 3 (Nfe3) can stimulate regrowth of optic nerve cells. \u201cThis opens a whole new novel realm of research. It could help glaucoma and other types of nerve damage,\u201d according to Trakhtenberg. &nbsp; A team of researchers in the lab of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 09:52:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7008,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7004\/revisions\/7008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}