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Paralyzed man given hope by experimental surgery (Stem cells from his own sinuses to be used)
StatesmanJournal.com ^ | 12/2/05 | DANIELA VELáZQUEZ

Posted on 12/03/2005 12:58:28 PM PST by wagglebee

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To: Petruchio

The nose knows


21 posted on 12/03/2005 3:34:14 PM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Stellar Dendrite; cubreporter

http://www.google.com/scholar?q=olfactory+ensheathing+cells+transplantation&hl=en&hs=JLg&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N&tab=ss&oi=scholart&q=olfactory+ensheathing+cells+transplantation

The future for the amelioration of spinal injury?


22 posted on 12/03/2005 3:41:25 PM PST by Frank Sheed ("Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions." ~GK Chesterton.)
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To: janetgreen
So even if adult (ethical) stem cells prove more effective and practical, California is still forced by law to keep using aborted fetuses...

Laws can be changed, and hopefully they will be changed when people find out the stem cells can be harvested from the nose!

Unfortunately, it will likely have no effect on thse liberals. You see, they don't care about helping people or about accurate science, just about their control-freak, authoritarian political agenda.

23 posted on 12/03/2005 6:18:58 PM PST by TBP
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To: 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; annalex; ...
Canadian tries Russian stem cell treatment
 
Adult Stem Cell Research Treats Spinal Cord Injury Patient
 
REGENERATING HOPE FOR A PARALYSIS CURE (macrophages are injected into the spinal cord)
 
Doctors in Russia Prove that Non-Embryonic Stem Cells can be Used in Treating Spinal Cord Injuries
 
Ethical Stem Cell Surgery in Portugal gave Paraplegic, Erica Nader, ability to walk briefly 3 yrs. later

24 posted on 12/03/2005 6:52:33 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: John Robinson

John "Jocko" Robinson, is a diver in Westchester, Calif


25 posted on 12/03/2005 6:57:28 PM PST by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, birds, algae)
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To: wagglebee; Salvation; Coleus; NYer; SoothingDave; cyborg; onyx; fortunecookie; ArrogantBustard; ...
Some of the Portuguese patients who have undergone the surgery have been able to move their legs or walk with a walker. Several others have regained bladder control.

That is AMAZING. May God bless those doctors and researchers who have developed this procedure. And may God profoundly bless Travis.

Simply AMAZING.

26 posted on 12/03/2005 7:00:46 PM PST by Petronski (Cyborg is the greatest blessing I have ever known.)
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To: wagglebee

This young man is going to need all the strength he can get; regaining sensation in atrophied limbs is excruciatingly painful, I understand. The rehabilitation is grueling as well. But, it will be well worth this price, to regain some measure of independence.


27 posted on 12/03/2005 7:24:42 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Petronski

Amen, brother!


28 posted on 12/03/2005 8:53:16 PM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: airborne

bfl! thank you


29 posted on 12/04/2005 3:30:10 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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To: wagglebee

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http://www.helptraviswalk.org/Intro/IntroFlash.htm


30 posted on 08/28/2006 9:26:54 PM PDT by Coleus (Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, geese, algae)
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