Immune response to spinal cord injury may worsen damage

Monday, September 21, 2009 - 18:14 in Health & Medicine

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- After spinal cord injury, certain immune cells collect in the spinal fluid and release high levels of antibodies. What, if anything, those antibodies do there is unknown. A new study by neuroscientists at The Ohio State University Medical Center may have solved the mystery.

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