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MANY attempts have been made by the use of various drugs and hormones and by electrical stimulations to influence the rate at which mammalian nerve fibres regenerate after injury. None of these has been successful. It has, however, recently been shown that in poikilothermic animals such as the frog1 and the lizard2, nerve regeneration following upon injury is greatly affected by the temperature of the environment in which the animals are kept.
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GAMBLE, H. Temperature Effects in Mammalian Nerve Regeneration. Nature 180, 146–147 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/180146a0
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