Neuroscientists at the University of Limerick in Ireland have unveiled a new method for repairing trauma-damaged spinal cord tissue using PEDOT (NP) polymer nanoparticles. work of scientists published In the journal Biomaterials Research.
Nanoparticles are an electrically conductive hybrid biomaterial that triggers the growth of stem cells at sites of spinal cord injury. Experiments on laboratory rats have shown that the method developed by scientists is effective.
The researchers plan to develop the method for better stimulation of spinal cord neurons, after which it will be subjected to clinical trials, after which the method can be used in practice.
According to the scientists, they used the advances accumulated in the field of bioengineering and solved the problem of biocompatibility of polymers.