“The macrophages were protective. They slowed down the onset of neuropathy and reduced its impact.” Potential strategies for peripheral neuropathy The Woolf Lab is now exploring how the ...

Peripheral neuropathy can be caused by compression of a nerve (like carpal tunnel syndrome), physical injury to a nerve such as during surgery, inflammation, infections, viruses, autoimmune ...

This surprising insight, published in Nature, could lead to strategies to prevent peripheral neuropathy or at least minimize and slow the onset of the ... and observe those early protective ...

They slowed down the onset of neuropathy and reduced its impact." The Woolf Lab is now exploring how the infiltrating macrophages protect against peripheral neuropathy. The next step would be to ...