Source: Georgetown University Medical Center
Date: November 10, 2006
Summary:
Neuroscientists had long believed that the only way to repair a spinal cord injury was to grow new neural connections, but researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that, especially in young rats, powerful cells near the injury site also work overtime to restrict nerve damage and restore movement and sensation. They say that now that they know such a mechanism exists, it may be possible one day to “switch” these cells on therapeutically and possibly help humans function better following serious spinal cord injuries. These new findings might also be relevant to multiple sclerosis, a disease caused by loss of an axon’s protective myelin sheath.
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