Wow. Scientists Have Reversed Spinal Paralysis In Dogs
 

That's amazingly good medical news.

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Seven year-old dachshund Oscar outside of his Boonville, Ind. home Friday Dec. 3, 2004. In Oct. of 2001Oscars owner Dan Paulin took Oscar to Purdue Universitys School of Veterinary Medicine in West Lafayette, Ind. for experimental treatment for spinal paralysis with polyethylene glycol called PEG. Now three years later Oscar is walking on his own.


INDIANAPOLIS - Dogs with paralyzed hind legs regained the ability to walk after getting a shot of a chemical cousin of antifreeze that helped repair nerve cells in their damaged spinal cords, scientists reported.

Purdue University researchers who led the project hope the approach can soon be tried in people, but caution that there are significant differences between human and canine spinal cords.

wow, that is incredible. science!