The Neurotransmitters That Promote Inflammation

In a spinal cord injury, you can damage either an upper or a lower motor neuron. And what we get are varying effects because the lower motor neuron is involved in reflexes. So if you have something absent from your body that happens to be associated with paralysis, for example, it's not mitigating this loss of movement. We're looking at ways to avoid these types of things by blocking glutamate channels called NMDA inhibitors or antagonists.