Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

The term demyelination describes damage to the layer covering nerve fibers in the brain and spinal cord. Recently ...

EAE has been established in numerous species ... perivascular infiltrates and myelin degeneration in the brain and spinal cord 9. In rhesus macaques that had received three 1 ml injections of ...

An experimental new therapy is restoring more function for patients with spinal cord injury, without invasive surgery.

Explore innovative treatments for spinal cord injury in clinical trials, including Lineage's OPC1 and NervGen's NVG-291, ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

Doctors use the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) International Standards for Neurological Classification of Spinal Cord Injury when determining the classification of injuries. If there is ...

Spinal Cord is a specialised, international journal that has been publishing spinal cord related manuscripts since 1963. It appears monthly, online and in print, and accepts contributions on ...

After a spinal cord injury, nearby cells quickly rush to action, forming protective scar tissue around the damaged area to stabilize and protect it. But over time, too much scarring can prevent nerves ...

After a devastating spinal cord injury, mice’s nerve cells balloon up in size. Some of these neurons stay swollen longer than expected and begin to die, a study published September 25 in Science ...

[116] We have also tested the therapeutic potential of bone marrow-derived MSCs in the chronic progressive model of EAE induced in C57BL/6 mice with the MOG 35-55 peptide. This model is more ...