Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests. Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny ...

A life-changing therapy being used at a small rehabilitation clinic in suburban Chicago is giving new hope to people with spinal cord injuries. Next Steps Chicago in Willow Springs is a non-profit ...

Your spine is made up of 33 vertebrae. Each one has openings that let nerves from your spinal cord pass through to other parts of the body. When these openings, called neural foramina, get narrow ...

Touch, however, is diffuse: The neurons that relay touch signals reside in clusters outside the spinal cord, from which they extend a vast web of axon fibers, like jellyfish tentacles, into the skin ...

insel.ch Objectives Anatomical identification of the corticospinal tract (CT) and the dorsal column (DC) of the exposed spinal cord is difficult when anatomical landmarks are distorted by tumour ...

For example, if a person has a pinched nerve due to spinal degeneration, they may need more intensive treatments to address the damage. The technique a chiropractor uses could also influence the ...

Telephone 61 2 9926 6387; fax 61 2 9926 6548; email phils{at}med.usyd.edu.au OBJECTIVES Non-painful sensory phenomena or “phantom” sensations are common after spinal cord injury. However, the ...

To confirm the pathogenicity of this gene, we used a zebrafish model and found that impaired EPHA4 pathway components and resulting defects in central pattern generators (CPGs) were associated with ...

The LR asymmetry of the DM also governs blood and lymphatic vessel formation for the digestive tract, which is essential for prenatal organ development and postnatal vital functions including nutrient ...