Spinal cord injuries cause damage to the fiber tracts that carry sensation and motor signals to and from the brain. Such injuries also damage the central part of the spine, causing segmental losses of interneurons and motor neurons. There are an estimated 10,000 to 12,000 spinal cord injuries every year in the United States. A quarter of a million Americans are currently living with spinal cord injuries and the cost of managing the care of spinal cord injury patients approaches $4 billion each year. 38.5% of all spinal cord injuries happen during car accidents, and almost a quarter (24.5%) are the result of injuries related to violent encounters, often involving guns and knives, while other causes are due to sporting accidents, falls, and work-related accidents. 55% of spinal cord injury victims are between 16 and 30 years old, and more than 80% of spinal cord injury patients are men.
BrainStorm has collaboration with Rutgers University in an effort to cure spinal cord injuries through BrainStorm’s cutting-edge adult stem cell research.
The study, combined with BrainStorm’s unique differentiation process, uses stem cells derived from human bone marrow that are expanded and induced to secrete neurotrophic factors. Preliminary evidence has indicated that transplantation of differentiated (but not non-differentiated) human bone marrow derived stem cells improved motor behavior of subjects used in animal studies as measured by motor and walking analysis. right now, BrainStorm And Rutgers are runing big study to evaluate the effect of BrainStorm cells.
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