Written by Jamie Stowe| Saturday, 21 May 2011| There are 0 comments
drastically improved condition after being treated for just eight days
A new study done by the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona has confirmed previous informal research which shows the using the erectile dysfunction medication Viagra can have a big impact on reducing the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. The research which was done on animals suffering from the disease showed that half of the animals had a drastically improved condition after being treated for just eight days with the Viagra.
The team of scientists working on this research saw that the Viagra drug reduced the quantity of inflammatory cells that found their way into the white matter of the spinal cord, which reduced the damage to the axon of the nerve cells and which facilitated myelin repair.
The research which was led by Dr Agustina Garcia from the UAB Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine and by Dr Juan Hidalgo from the Institute of Neurosciences also at the UAB was published in the clinical journal Acta Neuropathologica.
The good results from this clinical trial will mean that is very likely in the near future a new clinical trial using human patients will be conducted and this could give a new lease of life to the active ingredient of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, namely Sildenafil.
It is already known that Viagra works well with patients of multiple sclerosis suffering from erectile dysfunction so they should be no contraindications or problems with administering the drug.
If Viagra works in treating the symptoms of multiple sclerosis it is also likely that the other impotence drugs Cialis and Levitra will also work in the same way as they all belong to the same family of medications called phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors.
The researchers also speculated that Viagra could have a positive effect on other brain diseases such as Alzheimer's, cerebrovascular stroke and even on a physical brain injury.
