Magnesium treatment shortly after spinal cord injury in rats improves motor function and spares white matter, according to study findings published in the April issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine
Diana Barrett Wiseman, M.D., from the University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues generated a moderate-to-severe spinal cord injury in rats, then treated them with saline, magnesium, methylprednisolone, or magnesium plus methylprednisolone within 10 minutes of injury.
After four weeks, the researchers found that motor function, as assessed by the Basso-Beattie-Bresnahan motor score, recovered better in rats treated with magnesium compared with saline…
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