LED medical lighting -- Stimulate the muscles to prevent atrophy

Neuroscience expert staff Dalhousie University in Canada and the Brain Repair Center found a new method, you can skip the nervous system, directly stimulate nerve injury or disease linked to lose muscle.

When the nerve failure LED light success is directly stimulate the muscles to prevent atrophy

Taught at medical neurology department, who is also director of the Brain Repair Centre's Werther 'Laves (Victor Rafuse) Professor and his research partners together, an assistant professor with the department of Zhang Ying (Transliteration Ying Zhang) He said they successfully stimulate the muscles with LED lighting, enabling nerve injury and neurodegenerative diseases caused by atrophy and paralysis of the muscles react.

Dalhousie surgery residency and doctoral candidate Michael Phillips' report En (Philippe Magown) And graduate Basavaraj Shettar physicians and Travers and Zhang Ying cooperation this major medical breakthrough experiments and their findings on October 13, 2015, published in (Nature Communications) Journals.

'We found that through the skin as long as a day with the LED light irradiation one hour and there is no link nerve muscle, can prevent them from shrinking. Other studies successfully make the case of light to stimulate nerves, but we are able to skip the first case of nerves and direct action research on muscle. This study brings significant progress, because of the complete failure of neural tissue injury or as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, commonly known as getting cold) Other diseases, can not let the muscles by stimulating nerve functioning. '

Borrow from the LED light shines restore muscle function

To verify the light to directly stimulate muscle activity theory, the researchers implanted mice genes will react to light ion channels (ion channel) ,This ion channel was first discovered in the unicellular green algae, which the ion channels allow the muscles when exposed to blue light LED can stimulate contractions.

Scientists looking for a simple method of implanting ions into the body light reaction

'Our next step is to develop a light reaction able to ion channels directly to the muscles, without modifying the method of genetic composition so that we may have a way to find a viable therapy for humans.'

For example, Travers recommends that patients with hand muscles such ion channel transfer hand muscles nerve injury on failure. 'We see the development of a' possibility LED light gloves', and can be worn to avoid muscle atrophy, and when patients want to get something that can stimulate muscle contraction. '

Unlimited Potential applications are expected to help patients with neurological disorders disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

This new technology is still in the stage of research has many potential applications, including use in stimulating the patient's diaphragm disease Amyotrophic help because of neurons and synapses link failure mechanisms been suffering breathing problems in patients to stimulate their respiratory muscles, so the muscles to maintain the operation.




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