Researchers compare direct gene vs blood cell-mediated therapy of spinal cord injury
Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 13:10
in Health & Medicine
Compared with direct gene injection, cell-mediated GDNF gene delivery led to considerably more pronounced preservation of myelinated fibers in the remote segments of the spinal cord (5 vs 3 mm from the epicenter), and this might depend on the expansion of the therapeutic influence in cell-mediated therapy over long distances as a result of the migration of the transplanted cells.