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Stem Cell Breakthrough in Spinal Cord Injury Repair
"To our knowledge, this is the first time that two distinct sub-types of astrocytic support cells generated from a common stem cell-like precursor have been shown to have robustly different effects when transplanted into the injured adult nervous system," said researcher Margot Mayer-Proschel, from Rochester.
"It has long been a concern that therapies that promote growth of nerve fibres in the injured spinal cord would also cause sprouting in pain circuits," said Stephen.
"However by using the right astrocytes to repair spinal cord injuries we can have all the gains without the pain, while these other cell types appear to provide the opposite - pain but no gain," he added.
The study is published in the online Journal of Biology.
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01/25/2009
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09/29/2008
How much longer do we have to wait ? It seems that if you a lab rat you have a gr8ter chance of walking than if you are human ! We put man on the moon , have enough power to destroy life yet Govt's around teh world are more interested in their ego's than helping people to walk again! Why are there such large defense budgets and so little for medical research ? the spinal cord & related injury is the last frontier of science why is it taking more than 30 years to find a solution. |
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