see:
www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8711
hope the link works - this involves a drug that has allowed rats to regain spinal cord growth after severing. Could be very big.
metatron
"Walk Again" drug test
by metatron 6 Replies latest jw friends
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unclebruce
Interesting stuff metatron,
Let's hope it works on humans.
unc who was side tracked by the article on the daddy of all flesh eating dinosaurs -
After measuring their sizes, he estimates that the 99-centimetre-long snout came from a skull 1.75 metres long. From what we know of the body shapes of other spinosaurs, Dal Sasso calculates that the new Spinosaurus was 17 metres long and weighed 7 to 9 tonnes (Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol 14, p 888).
thank Jehovah for the flood!
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gumby
Just look at the hungry man eating bastard will ya! I gotta a pump up pellet gun that would scare the bastard off
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unclebruce
Jeezus Gumby!!! I thought the bugga died out in the flood - 50 feet long and 8 tons of attitude .. I'd better load me spudgun with a geli stick and send one up 'is arse
ps: where'd ya git the cigar?
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Mary
Is this your pistol Gumbastard? Ya, that'd scare the bejesuz outta that man eating dino........
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Gerard
This article makes no biological sense to me. When an antibody binds, it attaches itself so that a white cell recognized the complex as an intruder, in other words: an antibody targets cells for destruction. Assuming the targeted cells are not destroyed, their cell surface are -at least- blocked from any interaction and likely any growth.
I'd have guessed that growth factors or any other cell regulator would promote neuron regeneration, not an antibody. G o figure...
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Gerard
I got it now: Nogo-A exerts a growth inhibitory function leading to restricted axonal (neuron) regeneration. Anti-Nogo-A antibodies seem to stop Nogo's growth inhibition, allowing the axons (neuron) to grow and re-establish synapsis or connections.
Cool!!!!!!
