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Spleen linked to spinal damage, say researchersRSS Feed
The spleen could exacerbate the damage of a spinal cord injury, a new animal study has found.
Researchers from Ohio State University looked at two groups of mice that had spinal injury and one of which were without spleens.
Two weeks after the spinal cord injury was induced, macrophage levels in the mice without spleens were 20 per cent lower.
It was found that the spleen could produce cells that cause inflammation and can worsen the damage of a spinal injury.
"The spleen is releasing cells that are travelling to the injury site, and it's a significant number of cells," explained study leader Alicia Hawthorne.
"If we could target the spleen to decrease these cells or change their properties and make them less destructive, this might help promote the repair process as opposed to letting them cause inflammation or further damage to neurons," she added.
This comes shortly after reports that researchers at the University of California and San Diego and VA Medical Center San Diego found that primates, including humans, have an innate ability for spinal repair.
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