Study: Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Can Be Improved by Epigenetic Activator

Study: Chronic Spinal Cord Injury Can Be Improved by Epigenetic Activator
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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.