Family members are often called upon to make medical choices for patients who are unable to do so themselves. Researchers led by Alexia Torke, M.D., of the Indiana University
School of
medicine and the Regenstrief Institute, Inc., studied how physicians treating these patients interacted with surrogate decision-makers. (Source: News-Medical News Feed)
The proteoglycan chondroitin sulfate (CSPG) plays an important role not just in the formation of the glial scar but also in the repair of spinal cord injury, according to an article released on August 18, 2008 in the open-access journal PLoS medicine.