On the Regeneration of Nerve Cells
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Original in Spanish
I am certain that, in the near future, the technique will be discovered and perfected for achieving the union of two nerve tissues that have been separated by a blow or an accident, for example in a cervical fracture. My basis for thinking this is the following: when the human being is in the form of a zygote and the cells begin to divide to form the embryo, nerve cells are being produced and reproduced, which indicates that they are indeed reproducible and regenerable. Although in the adult they neither reproduce nor regenerate, there must be a substance in the embryo or an internal mechanism in the genetic code of the nerve cell that makes it reproduce at this early stage. If this substance is isolated or this mechanism (or this gene) is identified, it will be possible to force this reproduction of nerve cells in order to heal the spinal cords or the broken nerves of paraplegic patients or of those with other similar traumas.