European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 07, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes . Wednesday december 7,1994 drug injection gives Hope to victims of spinal injury. A by newday " new and encouraging evidence that some of the Crip pling caused by spinal Cord injuries cart be avoided was reported monday by scientists doing experiments with rats. .-._/. The surprising results came from injecting the Ani Mals with a Parent drug soon after they suffered experimental Back injuries. The drug was injected near the injury which seemed to Rescue some nerve tissue. Without treatment degeneration of spinal Cord cells gets worse after injury accounting for much of the damage that leaves thousands of people paralysed. But the new work suggests that drug combinations can limit damage and perhaps even help nerve fibres regrow. 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It is the Parent of All sex hormones Guth said. The body uses preen Enoline to make steroids including is Trogen normally much higher Levels of preen Enoline Are found in nervous system tissue compared with other body tissues. The idea was to give cells in the spi Nal Cord tissues a Chance to make what they need in the Way they know How in the amounts they need tomake the Best repairs Roberts said. The scientists re ported that remarkably 11 of the 16 animals treated were Able to stand and walk 21 Days after injury four of them almost naturally. The results were far Superior to animals Given other drugs or no drugs. I be never seen an animal that was injured like this walk added Guth who has spent three decades on spinal Cord injury research. We did t believe it so we repeated the whole thing in a larger number of Ani Mals and we got the same result to 150,000 for just$5l.72 that s How Little this space can Cost to advertise your Bazaar fest Marathon you name it. 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