In her latest study, Rieger and her colleagues investigated how hydrogen peroxide stimulates nerve regeneration. Rieger, who is currently an associate professor of biology in the College of Arts & Sciences, stated, 'It was a great discovery, but at the time we did not know the exact molecular mechanisms that drove nerve regeneration after injury.'
Now, in a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), Rieger uses these natural marvels with innate healing capacity once more to expand her research on the regenerative potential of hydrogen peroxide in wound repair and nerve regeneration.Īs a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles, Rieger made the groundbreaking discovery that hydrogen peroxide is produced in the epidermis and is responsible for promoting nerve regeneration following injury. Sandra Rieger's research on appendage regeneration and nerve damage at the University of Miami has utilized zebrafish for years. Widely used for modern biomedical research, zebrafish share more than 70 percent of the human genome and possess the impressive power of regeneration.
