Multimedia Release 16-Apr-2020

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

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Early Treatment with Approved Drug May Alleviate Muscle Spasms in Spinal Cord Injury Patients (2 of 2) — video: Early delivery and prolonged treatment with nimodipine prevents the development of spasticity after spinal cord injury. 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." view more

Credit: [Credit: Mattias Karlen, Ole Kiehn, Carmelo Bellardita and Maite Marcantoni]

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