Paralyzed mice brain injected with induced cellular hormones can resume walking.
Gene therapy is one of the major areas of medical technology that is advancing rapidly. Researchers in Germany recently published a paper saying that they injected designed gene protein cytohormones into the brains of mice paralyzed by spinal cord injury, and the mice could resume walking after about 3 weeks.
They are studying whether the therapy can be used in humans, which is expected to bring light to the rehabilitation of hemiplegic patients.
Dietmar Fischer, a professor in the Department of Cell Physiology at the University of Bochum, led the study, saying that a protein cytohormone called “interleukin-6” (hIL-6) can stimulate nerve cell regeneration, and that they have previously used this cytohormone to restore nerve cells in the visual system of blind people, but this hormone cannot be produced naturally by cells and needs to be produced with the help of However, this hormone cannot be produced naturally by cells, but requires genetic engineering to help produce it.
They then injected the hIL-6 into the mice’s brains, allowing them to enter the nerve cells responsible for motor control. The study was recently published in the scientific journal Nature.
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