Sniffing out new approaches to spinal cord repair

Recent research for ways to repair brain and spinal cord injuries has focused on the use of olfactory ensheathing glia to induce neuronal regeneration. However, differences between rat models and men, and difficulties in obtaining large quantities of this cell type indicate that we still are a long way from using this approach in human nervous system repair.

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