{"id":245113,"date":"2023-09-05T20:52:05","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T20:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/?p=245113"},"modified":"2023-09-07T20:16:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:16:47","slug":"promising-breakthrough-rats-healing-potential-offers-hope-for-spinal-cord-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/blog\/promising-breakthrough-rats-healing-potential-offers-hope-for-spinal-cord-injuries","title":{"rendered":"Promising New Research:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-245143\" src=\"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sept-blog-2-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sept-blog-2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sept-blog-2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Sept-blog-2-484x290.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Modified human stem cells may provide a new avenue for repairing damaged spinal cord nerves according to recently published research from two Universities in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By transplanting human neural stem cells with a 50% reduced response to the gene SOX9, researchers were able to increase reconstruction of neural circuits which dramatically improved movement in\u00a0 severely spinal-cord-injured rats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though the initial study was limited to rats, it opens a promising path for modifying the human stem cells that naturally occur after an injury, thereby reducing and even mending spinal cord damage. It may lead to a new treatment direction for repairing damaged spinal cords after further study.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about stem cell researchers and their findings\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityu.edu.hk\/research\/stories\/2023\/08\/16\/genetically-modified-neural-stem-cells-developed-cityu-and-hkumed-researchers-show-promising-therapeutic-potential-spinal-cord-injury\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Modified human stem cells may provide a new avenue for repairing damaged spinal cord nerves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":245143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245113"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245160,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245113\/revisions\/245160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/facingdisability.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}