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RegeneRx’s Tβ4 Significantly Improves Functional Recovery in MS Animal Model
BETHESDA, Md.–REGENERX BIOPHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (NYSE Amex:RGN) announced today that researchers at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan, demonstrated for the first time that Tβ4 treatment of EAE (experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis – an animal model for multiple sclerosis) significantly improves neurological functional recovery. In addition to this neurological benefit, the researchers reported a significant reduction of inflammation and induction of oligodendrogenesis (maturation of central nervous system cells associated with the formation of the nerve sheath), the control of which are important therapeutic goals.
The study entitled, “Neurological Functional Recovery after Thymosin Beta 4 Treatment in Mice with Experimental Auto Encephalomyelitis,” was published online ahead of print in Neuroscience, 2009 September 24. The publication highlights the statistically significant effects of Tβ4 treatment in EAE mice, including improvement of neurological functional recovery, reduction of inflammatory infiltrates in the brain, and increase of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (a type of stem cell) and mature oligodendrocytes in the brain.
The research team was led by Jing Zhang, MD, PhD; Zheng Gang Zhang, MD, PhD; Dan Morris, MD; Yi Li, MD; Cynthia Roberts, Stanton B. Elias, MD, and Michael Chopp, PhD of the Departments of Neurology and Emergency Medicine at the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, Michigan and the Department of Physics at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.
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