When we are in pain, we reach for painkillers as we try to "turn off" the pain. Unfortunately, this does not always work, and this problem has prompted researchers around the world to seek the "main switch" that can promptly ...
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A newly discovered pathway leading to the regeneration of central nervous system (CNS) brain cells (neurons) in a type of roundworm (C. elegans) sheds light on the adult human nervous system's ability to regenerate.
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Neurobiologists at UC San Diego have discovered how signals that orchestrate the construction of the nervous system also influence recovery after traumatic injury. They also found that manipulating these signals can enhance ...
Apr 11, 2016
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esearchers from Hokkaido University in Japan together with an international team of scientists implanted specialized embryonic stem cells into the severed spinal cords of rats. The stem cells, called neural progenitor cells, ...
Apr 11, 2016
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Transplantation of genetically modified cells carrying a transgene has a greater stimulating effect on the central nervous system after traumatic injury. During spinal cord injury, the extensive area adjacent to the epicenter ...
Apr 11, 2016
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The movement of limbs comes so fluidly and effortlessly for many of us that it is easy to take for granted. But those who work in the VCU Health Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation know from firsthand observation ...
Apr 7, 2016
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Older Americans are increasingly active, and this lifestyle shift has contributed to the rise in average age of a person experiencing a spinal cord injury. The changing demographic calls for a better understanding of how ...
Mar 31, 2016
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Neuroscientists have long believed that scar tissue formed by glial cells—the cells that surround neurons in the central nervous system—impedes damaged nerve cells from regrowing after a brain or spinal cord injury. So ...
Mar 30, 2016
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Writing in the March 28, 2016 issue of Nature Medicine, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, with colleagues in Japan and Wisconsin, report ...
Mar 28, 2016
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Injuries to the spinal cord partially or completely disrupt the neural pathways between the brain and the limbs. The consequences for the representation of the affected limbs in the brain can be drastic. ETH researchers have ...
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