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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Yeah, the research has been going on for years.
If it's the same guy I read about years ago [if it was also, then, Dr. McDonald]
then I'm really impressed with his dedication.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>The question that's always 'haunted' me is with respect to
transplantation of glia into the site of the injury. Anyone know if such has
been tried? {Seems it'd have best promise if it was a self-transplant, and I
understand that such a self-to-self transplant would be problematical, because
where does one feel safe in taking the glia cells for transplant? {Presumably,
they're carrying out a necessary function where ever they exist. Take a minimal
sample, and culture them in vitro?]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Anyway, after posting the prior msg, I realized that I'd
left-out some necessary Praise.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Mrs. Reeves, your Love for Christopher has probably been the
main thing. Love like yours is Miracle-Working stuff, and I've Celebrated it, in
my 'heart', ever since Mr. Reeves was first injured. To me, your Love is right
up-there with the Love of Pierre and Marie Curie - 'Totally-'Magic', and Awesome
in its capacity for making good-stuff happen.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>So, good for you, too, Mrs. Reeves.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>k. p. collins</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>John H.<JOHNHKM@OVERHERE.COM.AU> wrote in message <<A
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Not that new. I remember reading one article
about children with damaged optic nerves, over many years there is a slow
recovery of minimal vision, those neurites ever reaching forward for
something, anything. There are, however, an interesting series of research
articles showing how much protection can be achieved from injury, but it has
to be within a matter of hours. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>"Kenneth Collins" <<A
href="mailto:k.p.collins@worldnet.att.net">k.p.collins@worldnet.att.net</A>>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"<FONT color=#0000ff>Christopher
Reeve Regains Some Movement, Doctor Says</FONT>", By <FONT
color=#ff0000>SANDRA BLAKESLEE</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/12/health/12REEV.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/12/health/12REEV.html</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
color=#000000>"</FONT>`He did what everybody thought was not
possible,' said the doctor, John W. McDonald, an assistant professor of
neurology and director of the spinal cord injury program at Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis, who designed the therapy for
Mr. Reeve and described it in an article in the current issue of The
Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine. `He had the highest level of injury and
no recovery for five years. Now he's improving every day.'</FONT>
"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>[<FONT color=#0000ff>Quote Copyright
2002</FONT>, by <EM><FONT color=#ff0000>The New York
Times</FONT></EM>.]</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>This is exciting - externally-imposed
activation-dependent, and driven, trophic dynamics(?).</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>It's activation-dependence all the way
down.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>I'm 'embarassed' that, <EM>in my own
'blind'-automation</EM>, I didn't predict the specific aplication you've
Discovered, Dr. McDonald. Good for you, and good for Mr. Reeves, 'cause
his tenacious-persistence surely carried things 'over the crator's
rim'.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>k. p.
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