Spinal cord and nerve injury lead to a permanent damage in form of paralysis making person totally handicapped so to have a good recovery after nerve or spinal cord injury is the most wanted research of physicians. The latest research indicates that by fish genes, we can achieve it. Lampreys are jawless, eel-like fish that shared a common ancestor with humans about 550 million years ago.The fish species can fully recover from a severed spinal cord without medication or other treatment.
They can go from paralysis to full swimming behaviors in 10 to 12 weeks. Scientists have found that many of the genes that aid in the natural repair of injured spinal cord in the lamprey fish are also active in the repair of the peripheral nervous system in mammals, a finding that may eventually be harnessed to reverse spinal cord damage, even paralysis in humans. In the study, published in the journal…
