United Brachial Plexus Network, Inc.

Science is getting closer...

'Walk again' drugs to be tested on people

11 February 2006
NewScientist.com news service
Prashant Nair

TWO antibodies that enabled the severed spinal nerves of rats to be regenerated are to be tested in humans.

The antibodies have helped rats with damaged spinal cords to walk again, by blocking the action of Nogo, a protein that stops nerve cells sprouting new connections.

more....

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns? ... alth_rss20


Has anyone heard the progress on Prof Geoffery Raisman's Clinical Trails for BPI Re-Implantation with olfactory ensheathing cells (OECs)?
Have they even started yet?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0, ... 60,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/stor ... 38,00.html
http://www.frappr.com/ubpntbpi/photo/829673

I WANT IN THOSE HUMAN TRIALS. in London. I WOULD BE A GREAT CANDIDATE. HOW CAN I MAKE THAT HAPPEN? ANYONE KNOW? I HOPE I WIN THE POWERBALL LOTTERY AND THEN I WILL DONATE MILLIONS TO THE CAUSE.!!!
Frank

Wow, I had never heard of such a study before. I think it is amazing how far technology has come. It will be interesting to keep up on this and see how it works out. Thanks for sharing the articles. I am LOBPI but snoop on the traumatic people from time to time. How did you hear about this? Just curious...
thanks again for sharing
*S*

Non stop research... which is now made quiet easy with google.com. If you search for instance "stem cell", "brachial plexus", or "prof geoffery raisman", just above the search entry space is a clickable link in blue for 'News'. Once you've clicked that, all related recent news publications come up along with the dates of publication. And then on the left side of the page will be another link in blue with an icon of an envelope beside it for 'News Alerts'. Click that and you can set up any 'News Alert' to be emailed to you on a scheduled basis, that is if there is any news to be sent.

I get them for anything pertaining to neural regeneration, chronic pain, and top surgeon and researchers in those fields along with stem cell news. It's a very practical source and I learned to scan through the news synopsis's pretty quickly before either trashing the alert or jumping to the linked article.

It's just a way of keeping me informed and keeping my spirits up, that this pain and arm will some day get better. Otherwise I'd probably cut it off and move on. Not being able to jump, run, shake, dance, tumble, wrestle, and all those other things that I love doing and miss doing terribly, and don't need two arms to do, but am restricted from because of my BPI/flail arm are all spirit cripplers that I could be freed from with no arm or a better one. That's my motivation, plus thoughts of helping anyone else out of this hole makes it all worth while...

Cheers,
Christopher

PS another great resource for information is the carecure.org site for Spinal Cord Injury sufferers, specifically the cure forum with in that site ( http://carecure.org/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=32 ). It's probably my best resource, because those folks are motivated, and very proactive. There are many great and different discussion forum topics with in the site, and it helps ground me when realizing the challenges I'm up against are minimal when held up against the challenges that paraplegics and quadriplegics face on a second to second basis. Sad that I need to compare my suffering to another's to find out what I'm grateful for, but I guess that's one of the mishaps of being human. Hope I'll grow out of it some day. Being human that is....