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An Overview of Pharmacological Approaches for Management and Repair of Spinal Cord Injuries

Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to loss of nervous tissue and consequently to catastrophic neurological deficits. Up to now there is no definite treatment available that restores the loss of function to a degree that an independent life can be guaranteed. This justifies the cost of research into the...

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Autores principales: Khoshnevisan, Alireza, Mardani, Azam, Kamali, Shahab
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22952505
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Sumario:Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to loss of nervous tissue and consequently to catastrophic neurological deficits. Up to now there is no definite treatment available that restores the loss of function to a degree that an independent life can be guaranteed. This justifies the cost of research into the new modalities for a treatment of SCIs. In current paper, recent developments and new approaches in pharmacological therapy have been reviewed