Paralyzed Rats Recover Motion With Stem Cells
From Times Wire Reports
Stem cells taken from mouse embryos have helped paralyzed rats move again, researchers have reported.
Dr. Douglas Kerr of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and colleagues used a soup of compounds called growth factors to cause stem cells from the mouse embryos to develop into a type of nerve cell called a motor neuron.
Writing in the July issue of the Annals of Neurology, they said the transplanted cells, combined with the right mix of compounds, helped paralyzed rats regrow some of their nerve cells and use their hind legs.
