9/21/2009

Spinal advance gets rats running

Hopes that people with spinal injuries could one day regain leg movement have been raised by research in rats.

US, Russian and Swiss scientists used drugs and electrical stimulation to train the animals, whose spinal cords had been cut, to run on a treadmill.

Their movement was "almost indistinguishable" from normal steps, they said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8263787.stm

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