ealth Science Center's Groundbreaking Research Applied to Protecting Brain After Trau

[Carol Ames]

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/07-03-2009/0005054603&EDATE=xas, July 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In groundbreaking research, scientists at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth (http://www.hsc.unt.edu/) have determined that rapid estrogen administration can protect the brain following brain injury. These findings are now being tested on human trauma patients in North Texas. James Simpkins (http://www.hsc.unt.edu/faculty/biography.cfm?id=122), Ph.D., UNT Health Science Center chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, and Jane Wigginton (http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/findfac/professional/0,2356,45801,00.html), M.D., Department of Surgery, Division of Emergency Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas, are translating these animal studies of the protective effects of rapid estrogen treatment to human patients with severe traumatic:confused: brain injury and hemorrhagic shock.

[fooler]

Seriously - very interesting idea.


And on a humerous note. . . . :lol:
This may prove once & for all that women are smarter than men since they are using estrogen instead of testosterone to treat head injuries :D