Study seeks new way to enhance neuron repair in spinal cord injury
Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
If researchers could determine how to send signals to cells responding to a spinal cord injury, they might be able to stop one type of cell from doing additional damage at the injury site and instead, coax it into helping nerve cells grow. That is the theory behind new research at Ohio State University, where scientists are trying to determine how to simultaneously stop damage and promote neuron growth with a single, targeted signal.
