Early Treatment with Approved Drug May Alleviate Muscle Spasms in Spinal Cord Injury Patients (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Early Treatment with Approved Drug May Alleviate Muscle Spasms in Spinal Cord Injury Patients (1 of 2)

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CaV1.3 calcium channels were widely expressed in the spinal cord from early development in mice. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Apr. 15, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by M. Marcantoni at University of Copenhagen in Copenhagen, Denmark; and colleagues was titled, "Early delivery and prolonged treatment with nimodipine prevents the development of spasticity after spinal cord injury in mice."

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[Credit: M. Marcantoni <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2020)]

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