Fw: [MaleMedicalProblems] 'Sonic Hedgehog' Helps Regenerate Critical Nerve That Runs Along Prostate, Could Heal Erectile Dysfunction After Surgery

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Subject: Fw: [MaleMedicalProblems] 'Sonic Hedgehog' Helps Regenerate Critical

Nerve That Runs Along Prostate, Could Heal Erectile Dysfunction After Surgery

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Date: Saturday, June 12, 2010, 10:18 AM

From: B <bigcrix@...>

Subject: [MaleMedicalProblems] 'Sonic Hedgehog' Helps Regenerate Critical Nerve

That Runs Along Prostate, Could Heal Erectile Dysfunction After Surgery

malemedicalproblems , malemedicalproblemsgooglegroups,

ProstateCancerSupport

Date: Friday, June 11, 2010, 11:16 PM

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<http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/191363.php>

After men have surgery to remove a cancerous prostate gland, up to 80 percent of

them will lose the ability to have an erection because of damage to a critical

nerve that runs along the prostate.

New research from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine shows the

damaged nerve can be regenerated more quickly with a protein called sonic

hedgehog delivered via a nanofiber gel.