http://www.bbc.com/news/health-29645760
- * A paralysed man has been able to walk again after a pioneering therapy that involved transplanting cells from his nasal cavity into his spinal cord.
- * Darek Fidyka, who was paralysed from the chest down in a knife attack in 2010, can now walk using a frame.
- * One of the patient’s two olfactory bulbs was removed and the olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs) were grown in culture
- * 100 micro injections of OECs were made above and below the damaged area of the spinal cord
- * The scientists believe the OECs acted as a pathway to stimulate the spinal cord cells to regenerate…
- * He has also recovered some bladder and bowel sensation and sexual function.
- * … no danger of rejection, so no need for immunosuppressive drugs used in conventional transplants.
- * Prof Raisman has spent more than 40 years studying how to repair the spinal cord.
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