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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

So, T H cells that are polarized in the presence of IL-12p70 or IL-23 induce forms of EAE that are clinically identical but are mediated by distinctive effector populations and that respond ...

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 ...

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 ...

The purpose of cord cutting is to save a considerable amount of money each month. A "cord never" or "never-connected" is someone who never had such a subscription, while "cord shavers" are ...

Cord blood has a multitude of stem cells, which potentially can be used to treat serious illnesses. Some families choose to save their newborn’s cord blood (the blood from the baby left in the ...