Fenofibrate, an FDA-approved drug used to reduce cholesterol levels, causes sensory neurons in the spine following spinal cord injury to regrow twice as fast as with a placebo treatment. The results ...

image: Sensory neurons regrow more after injury when treated with the drug fenofibrate (lower panel) than when given a placebo (top panel; arrows indicate site of injury). Researchers at Washington ...

Researchers have discovered that an FDA-approved drug acts on support cells in the central nervous system to encourage sensory neurons to regrow after injury. A spinal cord injury damages the lines of ...