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It’s been acknowledged that there is no effective treatment to reverse injury to the spinal cord, but a recent study revealed positive findings from a mouse study.
Mice with severe spinal cord injury were given weekly treatments with an epigenetic activator, and the experiment results revealed that the treatments helped stimulate motor and sensory axon growth, sprouting, and synaptic plasticity in the injured spinal cords.
The study was published in the journal PLOS Biology, and was led by Simone Di Giovanni at Imperial College London in the U.K.
In the experiment, adult 6-to-8-week-old mice with destroyed spinal cord T9, mimicking severe clinical spinal cord injury, received a dosage of TTK21 via intraperitoneal injection (a means of administering substances usually used in animals like mice) once per week starting 12 weeks after injury....