Viagra can be used in stroke recovery study!!!
Today I want to share with you some information that was a great surprise for me.
Viagra can be used in stroke recovery study!!!
It’s true that each year about 750,000 Americans experience a new or recurrent stroke attack. It is the nation’s third leading cause of death, ranking behind diseases of the heart and all forms of cancer.
Some years ago Henry Ford Hospital started a safety study using the drug Viagra to settle on if it can help patients make progress from a stroke.
The aim of the study was to help people recover or improve motor and speech skills and in addition cognitive thinking.
During a number of years Henry Ford has been researching stroke recovery using Viagra in laboratory animals with good outcomes. And it was found that it’s possible to use Viagra to produce new brain cells! When animals with stroke are treated with Viagra, the drug provides very significant neurological functional benefit. The animals do much better on many different outcome measures, including motor function, neurological outcome and weight gain. There are far fewer functional deficits. Animals treated with Viagra days after stroke had a significant reduction in neurological deficit and a significant induction of new brain cells.
Henry Ford Hospital has used Viagra for Michigan patients for neurological recovery, both under a compassionate use basis.
Viagra was selected for the reason it is chemically analogous to other compounds shown to improve function in animals after stroke. Dr. Chopp says that Viagra activates a molecule called cyclic guanosine monophoshate in brain tissue that creates new cells in the brain. [Read more →]
