“…In the normal adult nerve, there is no evidence that myelinating Schwann cells (MSCs) enter cell cycle, and the division of nonmyelinating (Remak) Schwann cells is infrequent (Griffin et al, 1987(Griffin et al, , 1990. Nerve disease and injury, including nerve transection and demyelination, prompt Schwann cells to enter cell cycle (Friede and Johnstone, 1967;Pellegrino and Spencer, 1985;Griffin et al, 1987Griffin et al, , 1990Oaklander et al, 1987b;Cheng and Zochodne, 2002). The factors that signal this proliferation are not fully understood (Pellegrino et al, 1986;Oaklander and Spencer, 1988;Clemence et al, 1989).…”