CRC scientists from the University Medical Center Mainz, together with colleagues from the University of Virginia, have identified a new mechanism that mediates repair of nerve cells after damage to the central nervous system. Interleukin-4, a immune system secondary messenger produced by T cells, plays a key role here. The work has been published in a recent issue of the prestigious Journal of Clinical Investigation.

You can see the authors of the paper talk about there work in the following video.

A detailed press release (in German) can also be found here.