Improving recovery from spinal cord injuries: $3.7 million grant will create rehabilitation network
...ach year, nearly 11,000 Americans suffer disabling spinal cord injuries, the majority of whom are young and ... creating an interdisciplinary research network in spinal cord injury and rehabilitation throughout the Washington, DC region. Called the National Capital Are...A protein fragment called 12.5 kda cystatin may generate first simple test for multiple sclerosis
...ry fluid that surrounds and cushions the brain and spinal cord. The federally funded Hopkins research, repo...ith transverse myelitis, a painful inflammation of spinal cord nerves; 50 infected with the AIDS virus (which can cause nerve damage); and 27 with other neuro...For some with partial spinal cord injury, two different therapies show positive results
...ation for restoring movement to those with partial spinal cord injury, according to a new study. But an unex...r trial analyzed 117 individuals who had a partial spinal cord injury within the previous eight weeks. Through random selection, 58 patients received body wei...Researchers use embryonic model to reprogram malignant melanoma
... from the neural tube (which becomes the brain and spinal cord) to form tissues along specific pathways. Kulesa's laboratory transplanted adult human metastatic melanoma cells, isolated and characterized by the Hendrix laboratory group, into the neural tube of chick embryos. The transplanted melanoma cel...Seminar examines biology of pain and nerve repair in peripheral nerve disease
...e processes that are located outside the brain and spinal cord. It has many causes, including diabetes, traumatic injury to the nerves, damage to or swelling of the sheaths around nerves, circulation problems, genetics, or a misdirected immune attack on nerve tissue. Symptoms include pain in the hands and...New study shows xenon gas safe in surgery and could help stop nerve damaging illnesses
...damage nerve cells, such as strokes, and brain and spinal cord injuries. Earlier preclinical work by the tea...ping processes present during strokes or brain and spinal cord injuries that would damage nerve cells. They found that xenon was capable of blocking the effec...First diagnostic indicator for Amytrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) identified
... significantly lower concentration in the cerebral spinal fluid of patients with ALS than in healthy individ...chool of Medicine and colleagues compared cerebral spinal fluid from patients diagnosed with ALS, patients with other neurological disorders, and healthy indi...Corticosteroids associated with poor outcomes, death in the trauma intensive care unit
...temic blood infection), swelling of the airway and spinal cord injury, according to background information in the article. The medications were first used to treat sepsis in the 1950s and 1960s and evidence has suggested they are effective for this purpose. However, their use suppresses the immune system,......new table enables the treatment of problems of the spinal column, in the lumbar region, where there is acute and/or chronic pain caused by disc hernias, degeneration of the discs, posterior facet syndrome, discoarthrosis and sciaticas. The treatment uses an exclusive system for the decompression of the in...Lower doses of clot-busting drug safer for stroke patients
...ducing mortality rates, a sampling of the cerebral spinal fluid revealed that the 1 milligram dose stayed at therapeutic levels for longer periods of time than the 0.3 milligram dose. They also found that because the 1 milligram dose appears to clear the clot more rapidly from the third and fourth ventricle...Johns Hopkins scientists map brain area that may aid hunt for human brain stem cells
...of the brain that act as conduits for the cerebral spinal fluid that bathes the entire brain. The ependymal layer is a layer of cells that make up the outer wall of these tubes. Behind that layer lies the SVZ. Previous studies have shown that astrocytes located in rodent SVZs travel to the olfactory bulb, w...Columbia receives up to $15 million from Spinal Muscular Atrophy Foundation
... to progressive degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord. Loss of function leads to premature death due to respiratory problems; half of its victims die before reaching age two. The SMA Foundation estimates that there are currently 25,000 to 55,000 people suffering from SMA in the United States, Eur...Receptor critical in neurodegeneration reduces Alzheimer's plaque
...el of a protein that plays a key role in traumatic spinal cord injuries and multiple sclerosis reduces the c...the regeneration of axonal nerve fibers in injured spinal cords and in neurodegenerative diseases such as multiple sclerosis....Imaging changes treatment for lower back pain
...tients with lower back pain who would benefit from spinal injections and spare those who would not, according to a study appearing in the February issue of Radiology. Single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) shows abnormal activity of cells in the spine, which can help doctors identify problems th...JCI table of contents, January 26, 2006
...n of TLR9 and MyD88 were increased in the diseased spinal cords of EAE mice, revealing that expression of these proteins is involved not only in the defense against invading bacteria, but also in the attack of one's own myelin during MS. The authors suggest that identifying how TLR9 and MyD88 become activat...Cause of ongoing pain discovered
...erves and connect the skin or other tissues to the spinal cord. When activated through damage or disease, t...vel along the fibre from the site of injury to the spinal cord, from where information is sent to the brain. The faster the undamaged fine fibres fire, the st...Mountain bikers are cautioned to ride with care - major injuries do happen
...and no detailed reports have been made on cervical spinal cord injuries in English literature. In each of th...ns are not uncommon in mountain biking injuries, a spinal injury must be assumed in an injured biker with abnormal mental status until proven otherwise. The a...Vertebroplasty heals fractures but may cause others, Mayo Clinic study finds
...used to treat painful compression fractures in the spinal vertebrae due to osteoporosis, appears to increase...gament injuries, joint disease or narrowing of the spinal canal, says Dr. Kallmes....Blockade of fat hormone helps halt and heal multiple sclerosis
...MS. MS is an inflammatory disease of the brain and spinal chord characterized by muscle weakness, numbness, and loss of coordination. These symptoms result in part from destruction of the nerve-insulating material myelin by activated T cells. Leptin is known to play a critical role in the regulation of food...Surgery can ease sleep problems for those with brain malformations
...otrude through the bottom of the skull against the spinal cord. This protrusion can cause compression on the.... In syringomyelia, cerebrospinal fluid enters the spinal cord. The fluid then forms a cavity in the spinal cord known as a syrinx. All of the participants un...