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Docosahexaenoic Acid Improves Outcome After Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

 

Traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) has been estimated to occur in about 43-55 per million population in the United States. Despite the low incidence, hospitalization and rehabilitation charges for spinal cord injury can cause significant economic burden due to the devastating and debilitating neurological deficits. The management of SCI is mainly supportive, and an improvement in outcome is usually seen with administration of methylprednisolone within 8 hours of injury. In a recent study, W.L. Huang from the Neuroscience Centre, Institute of Cell & Molecular Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK, and colleagues evaluated the effect of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) in a rat model of SCI, and concluded that the outcome after SCI significantly improved by combining an initial acute intravenous injection of DHA followed by a sustained dietary supplementation (Brain, 2007).

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