Sunday, December 2, 2012

Paralyzed dogs regain use of limbs with help of nose cells | Synopsis

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Robert Franklin

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0.0177785"Our findings are extremely exciting because they show for the first time that transplanting these types of cell into a severely damaged spinal cord can bring about significant improvement," study author Robert Franklin, a regeneration biologist at the Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, said ...
0.021756"Our findings are extremely exciting because they show for the first time that transplanting these types of cell into a severely damaged spinal cord can bring about significant improvement," study author Robert Franklin, a regeneration biologist at the Wellcome Trust-MRC Stem Cell Institute, said in a press release. "We're confident that the technique might be able to restore at least a small amount of movement in human patients with spinal cord injuries but that's a long way from saying they might be able to regain all lost function. "
0"It's more likely that this procedure might one day be used as part of a combination of treatments, alongside drug and physical therapies, for example," Franklin added ...
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Geoffrey Raisman

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-0.161139"But, from a clinical perspective, the benefits are still limited at this stage. This procedure has enabled an injured dog to step with its hind legs, but the much harder range of higher functions lost in spinal cord injury -- hand function, bladder function, temperature regulation, for example -- are yet more complicated and still a long way away," Raisman said ...
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Jasper

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May Hay

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Country: U.K

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Company: BBC

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Organization: Cambridge University

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Organization: University College London

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Organization: Medical Research Council

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HealthCondition: spinal cord injury

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