Tribal warfare: Revenge, retaliation, deterrence
...f future aggression. People hold that an unavenged injury to self or kin gives permission for repetition of ...lose kinsmen, revenge is usually prohibited and an injury will go unmarked by any form of retaliation, Beckerman added. Social units that are relatively close...Polymers promote nerve regeneration
...evered, the part of the neuron "downstream" of the injury typically dies off. And neurons in the human body can be several feet long. Grafting, which works well for other tissue such as skin, isn't the best option because of loss of nerve function where the donor tissue is removed and the difficulty in gett...Cognitive abilities increase significantly with time in most prematurely born children
...special services, and absence of significant brain injury were all linked to higher scores on both tests. H...e first indication that the brain may recover from injury over time in these children," Dr. Ment says. Verbal comprehension scores increased by more than twi...Study shows how eye cells die when exposed to lead
...ovide novel therapies for retinal damage caused by injury or diseases such as diabetes and retinitis pigmentosa. The study, published in the Feb. 4 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, focused on identifying how low-level lead exposure during development in mice injures and eventual...Oxygen key switch in transforming adult stem cells from fat into cartilage
...have suffered some sort of cartilage damage due to injury or trauma. Farther down the line, they foresee a time when entire joints ravaged by osteoarthritis can be relined with bioengineered cartilage. "We don't currently have a satisfactory remedy for people who suffer a cartilage-damaging injury," Guilak ...Topical oxygen helps hard-to-heal wounds heal faster and better
...icians attempted to close the injury with surgery. Acute traumatic and post-surgical injuries had the best healing rates: such wounds on the trunk, arms and hands had a 75 percent and 100 percent healing rate, ...Digital X-ray microtomography yields stunning views of limb regeneration
...cations for replacement of limb parts missing from injury or birth defects, and, ultimately, for growing new tissue from parts of organs such as livers. Simon is assistant professor of pediatrics at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University and a developmental biologist at the Children's...For spinal cord injury patients, new insights for rehabilitation therapy
...ericans will have incurred a non-fatal spinal cord injury (SCI), joining about 200,000 others similarly disabled. The peak season for spinal cord injury is in the summer and is caused primarily by motor vehicle accidents, falls, sports injuries and viol...Exercise and recreation for people with mobility impairments
...standing top priorities of people with spinal cord injury Explores the viewpoint of persons with spinal cord injury regarding mobility and assistive devices. Ninety-four individuals with paraplegia were asked to prio...Effects of global warming already being felt on plants and animals worldwide
...e bag limits for hunters so we don't add insult to injury in the coming years. Because anticipation of changes improves our capacity to manage, it behooves us to increase our understanding about the responses of plants and animals to a changing climate." Other co-authors of the Nature study are Jeff T. Pric...Acorda therapeutics receives NIH Phase 2 grant for central nervous system repair
...y company, is developing therapies for spinal cord injury (SCI) and related neurological conditions, including multiple sclerosis (MS). The Company's lead product, Fampridine-SR, is in Phase 3 clinical trials for chronic SCI and Phase 2 for MS. Acorda's technology platform includes two remyelinating agent...Cox-2 enzyme plays important role regulating acute pancreatitis and associated lung injury
...ls, and acinar cell necrosis. The severity of lung injury was evaluated by measuring lactate dehydrogenase l...tis and, possibly, of pancreatitis-associated lung injury as well. This reduction in pancreatitis and lung-injury severity, brought about by interfering with...Zengen, Inc. announces novel approach to reduce organ rejection
...e protection of the transplanted tissue from early injury with a-MSH treatment can postpone rejection," said James Lipton, Ph.D., chief scientific officer and director of Zengen. "This is an important and encouraging advance in the field of organ transplantation and these data provide strong support for th...Children's Hospital Boston researchers regenerate zebrafish heart muscle
...ration as a means to understand and reduce cardiac injury in humans. When a human heart is injured, it cannot "grow back" the damaged muscle, which is instead replaced by scar tissue. Too much scarring can impair the heart's ability to pump and can lead to life-threatening arrhythmias. Keating and his colle...JCI Table of Contents, December 2, 2002
...bycorticosteroids Corticosteroids reduce ischemic injury in myocardial infarction and reducestroke size in ... during the pathogenesis ofventilator-induced lung injury CONTACT: Robert Streiter UCLA School of Medicine 900 Veteran Ave. 14-154 Warren Hall, Box 711922 ...Hearing loss & rehab, stroke & depression among topics of Vol. 39, Iss 5, JRRD
...re ulcer surgery. Forty-one males with spinal cord injury (SCI) or multiple sclerosis (MS) were randomized before surgery to either an intervention or a control group. A test on knowledge of pressure ulcer prevention was administered before surgery and at discharge from the hospital. The intervention group ...Telerobotic equipment aids in cleanup activities
...sites while helping to protect humans from serious injury in the process. The telerobotic manipulation system enables cleanup efforts to be conducted remotely from a distant location, performing chores that would have to otherwise be done on site by humans. Developed by the Department of Energy's Robotics C...Acorda Therapeutics acquires CeNeS neuregulin products
...RG2, has potential applications in MS, spinal cord injury (SCI), Parkinson's disease and chronic heart failu...y company, is developing therapies for spinal cord injury (SCI) and related neurological conditions, including multiple sclerosis (MS). The Company's lead pro...Acorda Therapeutics receives L.W. Freeman Award for Scientific Research
...pioneering research on regeneration in spinal cord injury or disease and was established in memory of Dr. L.... scientific research that benefits the spinal cord injury community. Acorda's research platform encompasses a broad range of therapeutic targets ranging from ...UT Southwestern scientists discover link between infections in mothers and brain injuries in babies
...st critical issue in preventing and treating brain injury in infants is figuring out where the damage begins...answers." The study reveals the link between brain injury that occurs during the perinatal period - immediately before and after birth - and an infection in t...