Scientists Reverse Paralysis in Dogs

My Way News ^ | Dec 3, 2004 | RICK CALLAHAN

[nickcarraway]

Who needs stem cells, when we have antifreeze.

[neverdem]

PEG is being used as the polymer "backbone" for a number of drugs. Check the Google. But I can't find out how they synthesize just plain PEG.

[mysto]

"Well yeah, Bush can make dogs walk again, but if John Kerry had been elected president..."

[Spirited]

Thank you so much for the confirmation.

I consider all that stuff dangerous to my interests but if it works to redeem paralysis then lacking any other means it is acceptable in that circumstance.

[BobS]

I banged up my left arm and spliced the radial nerve. It took 2 months to grow back at 1 mm/day. Painful when the connection was back. And now, the overcompensation from that time put stress on the tendons directly above my left rib cage, which felt like a heart attack. My plumbing and lungs are clear. Then I was a passenger in a Nissan Sentra while some babe came barelling through a red light and ended up a tree at a 45deg angle and the front of the car I was sitting in splattered down the street. Numerous injuries, of course. I got some $ out of that and another Purple Heart:) My first Purple Heart came from slipping on an icy radar platform at work and falling on my ass, 6 feet below. Just black and blue, and they shoved money at me for that also!

Damn! I was minutes away from getting killed by an ETA bomb in Alcala, Spain and didn't make any money there! Just joking, of course. I don't like my body broken up and actually do try to take care of it:)

My body just seems to attract big accidents. I'm doing better now. It's almost a 4 year anniversary. And no more feats.

[neverdem]

Are you lucky when you gamble? ;^)

[BobS]

Yes. Craps. At the Luxor or Belaggio. I limit myself to $1900. Standing is good for me.

[Ichneumon]

LOL! Love that movie. It's so outrageously over-the-top.

[Balata]

"I'm pretty sure what is meant by secondary tissue death is the formation of scar tissue."

I don't think so.

Approximately four to eight hours after a spinal cord injury, toxic chemicals start to be released that cause cell (neuron) death some distance away from the the injury site. This is what they mean by secondary tissue death.

By eliminating secondary tissue death the spinal cord injury could be more easily localized.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the info and correction. It's been a while since this was an active interest of mine. Wallerian degeneration and the scar tissue formation across a transected cord was the extent of my memory. PubMed is great!

[lainde]

bttt

[exDemMom]

But I can't find out how they synthesize just plain PEG.

For the laboratory, we buy PEG in 5 kg containers from Sigma. So, from my perspective, PEG just appears magically, when needed... I never thought about its fabrication.