Can Nose Cells Help Spinal Cord Injuries?
Doctor Says Nasal Tissue Could Help Regeneration
POSTED: 4:49 pm EDT July 26, 2007
INDIANAPOLIS -- A doctor in Portugal is recruiting people through an
Indiana hospital for a study on whether cells in nasal tissue can
help repair damaged spinal cords.
Dr. Carlos Lima, a neuropathologist, says harvesting olfactory
mucosa -- naval-cavity tissue with mucus-secreting glands -- and from
a patient and putting it into his or her damaged spinal cord may be
able to help regenerate spinal cells.
Lima already has led such a procedure on a Butler University student,
Sarah Clay, who became a paraplegic in an ATV accident five years
ago.
Clay flew to Portugal last year for the operation, called olfactory
unsheathing cell implantation. She is now undergoing intense
rehabilitation and has seen improvement.
"I can walk with ... braces, and I couldn't do that before," Clay
told 6News' Stacia Matthews.
The idea behind the procedure is that the nasal tissue has nerve
cells that can regenerate, Matthews reported.
"When you lose your sense of smell, it comes back. Those are nerve
cells that you're looking for," said Clay, a pharmacy student. "They
are nerve cells -- stem cells -- and they regenerate."
Lima is working with the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana to
recruit patients for his next study.
"We're seeing some things that are interesting. They are hard to
explain from the normal process of a spinal cord injury," the
hospital's Annette Seabrook said.
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StemCells subscribers may also be interested in these sites:
Children's Neurobiological Solutions
http://www.CNSfoundation.org/
Cord Blood Registry
http://www.CordBlood.com/at.cgi?a=150123
The CNS Healing Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CNS_Healing
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