New Study Finds Blood-Spinal Cord Barrier Compromised In Mice With ALS

The blood-spinal cord barrier is functionally impaired in areas of motor neuron damage in mice modeling amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), report researchers at the University of South Florida Center for Aging and Brain Repair. The barrier disruption was found in mice at both early and late stages of ALS, a progressive neurodegenerative disease affecting nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Muscular Dystrophy on December 2nd, 2007