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Article: Researchers restore movement after spinal cord damage
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- The Hindustan Times
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- January 7, 2008
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London, Jan. 7 -- Researchers at University of California Los Angeles have found that the central nervous system can reorganize itself and follow a new pathway to restore movement after a spinal cord injury.
Spinal cord injury suspends the pathway that brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking, and till now, the researchers thought that the only treatment for this was to re-grow the long nerve highways that connected the brain and base of the spinal cord.
The new finding has now opened up the possibility for developing new therapies for restoring movement following spinal cord injury.
The team ...