It’s widely acknowledged that there is no effective treatment to reverse injury to the spinal cord.
However, a recent study has revealed that the result of an experiment conducted in mice where weekly treatments with an epigenetic activator were used, it was able to help stimulate motor and sensory axon growth, sprouting, and synaptic plasticity in mice’s spinal cord with severe injury.
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….