Spinal cord

The spinal cord is a bundle of nerves that descends through the bottom of the skull from the base of the brain (brainstem) and descends to the bottom of the spine, where it thins, and becomes the ca...

Spinal Cord Tumors

A spinal cord tumor is a noncancerous (benign) or cancerous (malignant) growth in or around the spinal cord. 10 % originate from the cells within the spinal cord; these cause a fluid-filled cavity...

Spinal cord injury

Spinal Cord Infarction

Spinal Cord Disorders

Paralyzed Rat With Spinal Injury Walks Again With Robot Rehabilitation

A rat with spinal cord injury and paralyzed legs managed to walk again after robot rehabilitation got its spinal brain working again and voluntary movement was restored. Swiss researchers reported tha...

The pincers effect on cervical spinal cord in the development of traumatic cervical spinal cord injury without major fracture or dislocation

Walking and running again after spinal cord injury

Rats with spinal cord injuries and severe paralysis are now walking (and running). New results show that a severed section of the spinal cord can make a comeback when its own innate intelligence and r...

Rewiring a Damaged Spinal Cord [Video]

When Christopher Reeve became quadriplegic, there was little hope for patients with spinal cord injury. Now researchers are combining what they know about the central nervous system’s ability to...

Promising Mechanism For Healing Spinal Cord Injury

Yona Goldshmit, Ph.D., is a former physical therapist who worked in rehabilitation centers with spinal cord injury patients for many years before deciding to switch her focus to the underlying science...

Zebrafish reveal promising process for healing spinal cord injury

Scientists are studying the mechanisms of spinal cord repair in zebrafish, which unlike humans and other mammals can regenerate their spinal cord following injury. Their findings suggest a family of m...

Human Spinal Cord Modulation System For Relieving Chronic Pain

Each year, more than 35,000 patients in the United States are implanted with spinal cord stimulators to treat chronic pain. Unfortunately, up to half of such patients receive only very limited pain re...

Zebrafish reveal promising mechanism for healing spinal cord injury

Scientists in Australia are studying the mechanisms of spinal cord repair in zebrafish, which unlike humans and other mammals can regenerate their spinal cord following injury. Their findings suggest...

An alpha1-adrenoceptor blocker terazosin improves urine storage function in the spinal cord in spinal cord injured rats.

To confirm the role of alpha1-adrenoceptor (α(1)-AR) in the spinal cord, we investigated the effect of intrathecal application of terazosin, a non-selective α(1)-AR blocker, on the micturition refle...

5α-reductase 1 regulates spinal cord testosterone after morphine administration.

The enzyme 5alpha-reductase 1 (5α-R(1)) that converts testosterone (T) to dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is present in many mammalian tissues including the spinal cord. It is established that morphine adm...

Is the outcome in acute spinal cord ischaemia different from that in traumatic spinal cord injury? A cross-sectional analysis of the neurological and functional outcome in a cohort of 93 paraplegics.

Expression of PirB in normal and injured spinal cord of rats.

The expression of paired immunoglobulin-like receptor B (PirB) in normal and injured spinal cord of rats was investigated. The SD rat hemi-sectioned spinal cord injury (SCI) model was established. Bef...

NADPH-d and Fos reactivity in the rat spinal cord following experimental spinal cord injury and embryonic neural stem cell transplantation.

The aim of this study is to determine the role of nitric oxide (NO) in neuropathic pain and the effect of embryonic neural stem cell (ENSC) transplantation on NO content in rat spinal cord neurons fol...