© 2020 EPFL - Partial mobility can be restored in rodents with impaired spinal cords. Using AI, scientists can now determine the cellular mechanisms responsible - a technique that may be applicable to many biomedical problems. Researchers at EPFL are able to get paralyzed rodents walking again by stimulating the animals' damaged spinal cords. This promising treatment has already helped paraplegics regain mobility during clinical trials at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). Now, using artificial intelligence, the researchers can pinpoint which neurons are involved in the gait reacquisition process. The results, which have been published , could lead to the development of new approaches, making treatments even more effective, as well as paving the way for advances in other areas of biomedical research. Rodent spinal cords - like those of human beings - contain some 50 different types of nerve cells, or neurons.
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