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This research is still in the early stages, and they studied the effects when it was administered directly after a tbi, but nonetheless, this may eventually bare good news for those with neuroinflammation.
Now, researchers from Imperial College London and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have found that the anaesthetic drug xenon, given shortly after a TBI, prevents early death and long-term cognitive impairment and protects brain tissue itself in mice. The xenon-treated mice had a similar life expectancy, cognitive function, and brain tissue integrity, to mice that had never sustained a TBI.
Previously, the same team led by Dr Robert Dickinson and colleagues at Imperial's Department of Surgery & Cancer, showed xenon limited early brain damage and improved long-term motor function in mice with TBI. However, they had yet to look at xenon's effect on life expectancy, long-term cognitive function and brain tissue degeneration after TBI.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521075057.htm
Now, researchers from Imperial College London and Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have found that the anaesthetic drug xenon, given shortly after a TBI, prevents early death and long-term cognitive impairment and protects brain tissue itself in mice. The xenon-treated mice had a similar life expectancy, cognitive function, and brain tissue integrity, to mice that had never sustained a TBI.
Previously, the same team led by Dr Robert Dickinson and colleagues at Imperial's Department of Surgery & Cancer, showed xenon limited early brain damage and improved long-term motor function in mice with TBI. However, they had yet to look at xenon's effect on life expectancy, long-term cognitive function and brain tissue degeneration after TBI.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/05/190521075057.htm