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Reeve Spurs Advances in Spinal Cord Injury Research

by KYW's medical editor Dr. Brian McDonough

The name Christopher Reeve means very little to present teenagers and those younger, but the late actor who brought superman to the screen may play a dramatic impact on that generation and many others. The awareness he created surrounding spinal cord injuries has infused dollars and research into the field and it continues.

The most recent breakthrough has to do with adult stem cells that may prove valuable in efforts to develop non surgical treatments for spinal cord injuries. Here is how it works:

An adult's spinal cord has few stem cells that normally are not very active but become active upon spinal cord injury. They actually move to the injury site and change over several months. Now researchers in the U.S. and Sweden are finding ways to cause this to happen in the lab so larger numbers can be infused to help with treatment.

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