Introduction

Rats with chronic parvovirus infection show improved recovery from spinal cord injury

Rats with chronic parvovirus infection show improved recovery from spinal cord injury

A vendor informed researchers in Stockholm, Sweden that they had been shipped rats infected with rat parvovirus type 1a (RPV-1a). They compared these rats with uninfected ones and found that, after spinal cord injury, the RPV-1a-infected rats had significantly better hind limb locomotor recovery, significantly better tissue sparing and axonal sparing around the injury site, as well as significant reductions in macrophages/activated microglia and astrocyte reactivity in their spinal cords.

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