Promising therapeutic approach for spinal cord injuries
[PRESS RELEASE 2018-03-01] The healing ability of the central nervous system is very limited and injuries to the brain or spinal cord often result in permanent functional deficits. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report in the scientific journal Cell that they have found an important mechanism that explains why this happens. Using this new knowledge, they were able to improve functional recovery following spinal cord injury in mice.In many organs, damaged tissue can be repaired by generating new cells of the type that were lost. However, after an injury to the central nervous