Paralysed dogs can move again.(Brief Article)

Australasian Business Intelligence, April, 2005 by Bonner, John

Apr 20, 2005 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX)

Researchers at Cambridge University have helped dogs suffering from paralysis regain a little movement. They achieved this by injecting olfactory ensheathing glia cells - the only nerve cells that can continually regenerate - into the their damaged spinal cords. Australian scientists have applied the treatment on humans but the result of their research will not be released until 2007.

Publication Date: 16 April 2005

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 

By John Bonner

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