Intravenous infusion of magnesium chloride improves epicenter blood flow during the acute stage of contusive spinal cord injury in rats.
RatSpinal cord injuryContusionFemaleIntravenous infusion
Model: Moderate T9 contusive spinal cord injury
Magnesium chloride greatly increased the number of perfused microvessels at 24 and 48 h without increasing haemorrhage, but did not reduce acute microvessel, motor neuron or oligodendrocyte loss and did not improve functional recovery or spared white matter at 4 weeks.
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