Polylaminin, a Drug Considered Capable of Reversing Spinal Cord Injury
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A Brazilian drug called Polylaminin has shown promise in reversing spinal cord injuries, sparking excitement and discussion among HN users about its potential and the science behind it.
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Sometimes drug and medical device companies will gag patients with non-disparagement agreements, while letting the success stories post freely on social media to promote their product/procedure/etc.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.19.24301010v...
More recent work indexed in Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=TVozLNoAAAAJ...
A good friend of mine spent years doing research at Caltech in basically trying to bridge the severed part of the spinal column with electrodes. In mice that is.
The department got lots of $ from the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation to help them in said research.
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