Scientists at the Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine are scheduled to begin testing an exciting new spinal cord injury treatment on dogs.  If the tests are successful, as Galveston car accident lawyers hope they will be, then tests on human beings will be the next step.

The dogs included in the study will be those with short legs and long torso like daschunds, which have been found to be at a slightly higher risk of spinal cord injury. The first phase of testing has already been completed on mice at the University Of California in San Francisco.  Those tests have been found to be successful.  Mice that had suffered paralysis in their hind limbs began to show signs of movement, and were able to take some steps on their own just three days after being administered the drug.  It’s now the turn of the Texas researchers to conduct the same testing on dogs.

The drug will not cure spinal cord damage.  What it will do however is restrict the amount of cell damage that takes place after a person suffers a spinal cord injury.  A protein called matrix metalloproteinase-9 is released in the blood in large numbers when a person suffers a spinal injury, and this protein has a destructive effect on cells in the spinal area.  What the drug does is inhibit the functioning of this protein, thereby protecting important cells and pathways that would otherwise be damaged by the protein.

If you have suffered a spinal cord injury in a car accident or workplace accident or any other accident in the Galveston region, contact a Galveston personal injury lawyer at Vujasinovic and Beckcom for an evaluation of your case.

Vuk Vujasinovic is a Board Certified Houston personal injury attorney who practices Houston auto accident and other personal injury cases.

For more info on how Vuk can help you with your potential case please call him at (877) 724-7800 or fill out the contact form on the right.

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