Source: WRTV - Indianapolis, IN
Posted: July 26, 2007 4:49 pm EDT
Summary;
A doctor in Portugal is recruiting people through an Indiana hospital for a study on whether cells in nasal tissue can help repair damaged spinal cords. Dr. Carlos Lima, a neuropathologist, says harvesting olfactory mucosa -- naval-cavity tissue with mucus-secreting glands -- and from a patient and putting it into his or her damaged spinal cord may be able to help regenerate spinal cells.
