New plastic heals damaged nerves
...nd nerve cancer - are even more common than spinal cord injuries, says Schmidt. Statistics don't reveal how prevalent they are, however, because doctors often report them as part of an accompanying condition, such as cancer. To stimulate nerve growth, the researchers synthesized a new biomaterial. It ...OHSU researchers discover new synapses in brain
...ls at high speed, like the signals from the spinal cord to the leg muscles. The breakdown of myelin around these nerve fibers is believed to be the cause of multiple sclerosis. Scientists at OHSU, in collaboration with colleagues at the Medical Research Council Unit at Oxford, have found that the oligode......pany that develops therapeutic products for spinal cord injury and other central nervous system conditions. Acorda is planning to complete the preclinical work necessary before human clinical trials can be designed. This work includes scaling up manufacturing of the antibody to produce quantities sufficie......entral nervous system. We affect segmental spinal cord reflexes. That has an immediate segmental response back to a muscle, a joint, out into the periphery, and into the central nervous system." For example, chiropractic neurologists have successfully treated attention deficit disorders (ADD/ADHD) witho......e dorsal horn, the layered structure in the spinal cord that propels pain signals up to the brain. Even a... cells, the response to pain was increased. Spinal cord segments also exhibited an increase in pain input on the left neonatal treated side, including areas...Society for the Study of Impotence 2000 Fall Research Meeting In Cleveland September 15-17
...ng at 9 a.m.) Sexual function after spinal cord injury. (Sunday, September 17 beginning at 8:35 a.m.) The relationship of hypertension and erectile dysfunction. (Sunday, September 17 beginning at 9:30 a.m.)...... are one step closer to reversing brain and spinal cord injuries with the discovery of another molecule in...th of injured nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord by the protein, Nogo. The finding could lead to the reversal of functional deficits in brain and spi......reast cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and spinal cord injury. Each year, approximately 100,000 people die from TBI, and 500,000 more are permanently disabled. Every 15 seconds, someone, usually a young person, suffers from a brain injury. Despite these numbers, our understanding of the brains long-...Mouse provides clues about chronic pain
...e cell, which relays the pain signal up the spinal cord to the brain. Under normal conditions, these syn...th normal and NR2B mice. They also examined spinal cord slices from both strains. The spinal cord slices responded similarly to a small electrical stimulus....Cell transplants offer hope of brain repair following stroke
...e neurons, or nerve cells, of the brain and spinal cord disappeared soon after birth. However, Rosenbaum's research team has shown that such repair processes can occur in mature brain cells at a very slow rate. In the current study researchers sought to determine whether stem cells would grow and mature......rders, which mayinclude Alzheimers disease, spinal cord injury and Lou Gehrigs disease. We have discovered that a small molecule called adenosine can mimic the effects of nerve growth factor and brain-derived growth factor to prevent cell death in the nervous system, says Moses Chao, PhD, a neurobiolo......ansverse myelitis is an inflammation of the spinal cord that causes damage and ongoing disease. While rare, TM can be triggered by common ailments like chicken pox or the flu, by auto-immune reactions to vaccinations or other as-yet unknown causes....Natural immune response reduces nerve damage; may lead to improved treatment for spinal cord injury
...ne to improve functional recovery following spinal cord injury. The findings also challenge accepted dogma...at occurs after the initial trauma, such as spinal cord injury. In four experiments in rats and mice, Schwarz and colleagues Eti Yoles and Ehud Hauben fou...Chiropractic correction of upper neck injury may help reverse multiple sclerosis
...ve pathways traveling between the brain and spinal cord became less obstructed. This may help improve and/or reverse the MS symptoms. "According to medical research, head and neck injuries have long been considered a cause of Multiple Sclerosis," said Elster. "But this is the first research to show that c...Research shows way to boost morphine's pain-killing benefits
..., the researchers examined the cells of the spinal cord in both the experimental and control rats. Their focus was the mu opioid receptors (MOR) that morphine normally activates on the cell surface. In those rats that had been given only morphine, and who became tolerant to morphine in four days, the MOR ...A peptide whose absence leads to narcolepsy also might play role in pain sensation
...ion in the control of pain, particularly in spinal cord injuries where pain is a substantial problem, said...lamus establish direct connections with the spinal cord and hypocretin changes the electrical activity of nerve cells in the dorsal part of the spinal cord ...Researchers identify for the first time proteins vital to maintaining nervous system architecture
...perature and touch, dual nerve cords-a major right cord and a minor left cord--that run longitudinally alo...hich the worm wriggles, and other nerves. A nerve cord is a collection of nerve axons, long projections of neurons that allow communication between nerve c...Rat makes a partial recovery following a spinal cord lesion
...erimental therapy which enables rats with a spinal cord lesion to partially recover from their paralysis. ...earchers attempted to repair three sorts of spinal cord damage in rats. The first, the dorsal, partial hemisection is comparable to a knife stab in the back...Multimillion-dollar pain research center funded at Wake Forest
...ientists believe that nerve activity in the spinal cord has a major influence over the perception of pain ...han in men. Those drugs act on cells in the spinal cord called cholinergic cells, the same kinds of cells affected by nicotine. One of these types of drugs,...