Georgetown University Medical Center

By shutting down inflammation, agent reverses damage from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies

Published in Biotech Business Week, April 27th, 2009

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have been able to speed recovery and substantially reduce damage resulting from spinal cord injury in preclinical studies.

Their research, published online in Annals of Neurology and led by Kimberly Byrnes, PhD, shows that inflammation following injury causes the neurotoxicity that leads to lasting nerve cell damage, and that an experimental agent is able to block this inflammatory reaction.

"The findings we have made in this study may potentially be applicable to other neurological disorders, including stroke, head injury, Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease," says senior...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2009-04-27)

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