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Olfactory ensheathing cells treatment improves neurological function in SCI patients

Olfactory ensheathing cells treatment improves neurological function in SCI patients

A team of researchers in Poland who treated three of six paraplegics with spinal cord injury using transplanted olfactory ensheathing cells found that the three treated patients showed neurological improvement and no adverse effects while the three control patients who did not receive transplants saw no improvement.

The study appears as an early e-publication for the journal Cell Transplantation, and is freely available on-line.

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