Monday, March 18, 2024

Tag: Neurons

Discovery could help treat spinal injuries

U of A researchers uncover trigger that causes muscles to move without signal from brain EDMONTON - Research led by a pair of University of...

University of Louisville, Kentucky centers develop treatments, create hope for spinal cord injuries

A bullet remains lodged in Michelle Alexander's spinal cord nearly six years after her husband shot her four times — instantly paralyzing her —...

Chitosan Offers Hope For Spinal Injury Patients

Richard Borgens and his colleagues from the Center for Paralysis Research at the Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine have a strong record of inventing...

News on the underlying mechanisms of spasticity

A recent paper in the journal Nature Medicine sheds some important new light on the underlying mechanisms of spasticity that often develops after a...

Scientists discover cause of destructive inflammations

The signaling molecule CD95L, known as "death messenger," causes an inflammatory process in injured tissue after spinal cord injuries and prevents its healing. This...

Waiting for a miracle that could come soon

DENVER - Luke Vogel was angry. There is no other way to say it. He had heard people talk about quadriplegics before the accident,...

Findings offer potential significance to the recovery of walking after spinal cord injury

Researchers at the medical university Karolinska Institutet have created a genetically modified mouse in which certain neurons can be activated by blue light. Shining...

First U.S. Stem Cells Transplanted into Spinal Cord

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- For the first time in the United States, stem cells have been directly injected into the spinal cord of a...

Getting a kick out of research

A Dalhousie University professor and an international team of researchers have discovered what makes us kick. Dr. Rob Brownstone, along with colleagues in New York...

Scots scientists discover spinal injury ‘volume dial’

University of St Andrews researchers find neurone in the spine that controls the strength of signals sent to muscles. Scottish researchers have discovered a "volume...