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Vitamin D in Pregnancy Linked To Greater Bone Densities in Children

...gnancy. Additionally, the levels of the vitamin in cord blood were also tabbed. Vitamin D is vital for the absorption of calcium in the body, which plays a huge role in the formation and health of the bones. "Vitamin D supplementation of such mothers, especially when the last trimester of pregnancy occurs...

First Frontal CSF Endoscopic surgery performed in Chennai

...f the brain and is present around brain and spinal cord which provides a fluid cushion support to the brain and spinal cord and protects these organs from injury and in CSF rhinorrhoea condition leakage of the CSF occurs thr...

The Slow And Steady Race To Eradicate Polio Offers Hope

...aigns. The polio virus mainly damages the spinal cord spreads at a rapid pace in areas with a dense population and poor sanitation. Egypt was one of the countries with a high incidence of Polio. Initiation of the polio vaccination program using an improved vaccine to combat the dominant strain of the po...

More The Usage More The Growth In The Adult Brain.

...neuron is increased. Patient suffering from spinal cord impairments can be treated using dendritic growth ...e to grow cells to replace those damaged by spinal cord injuries. ...

Silicone Rubber Flap Restore Speech

...cone flap which is implanted in place of the vocal cord that has been removed. Two flaps each of them unique to male and female was developed. The mechanism with which it works is the vibrations felt by the flap, air resistance and the vocal sound was produced. All of which were tested in-vitro on a gr...

New Device To Help Patients Walk

...ists with the object of helping people with spinal cord injuries walk again. The device makes the muscles/... Instead, the FES is designed to teach people with cord injuries how to trigger their muscles independently so that they can gradually wean off the device a...

Stem Cell Facility To Be Established In Chennai

...l transplant facility in the city.// The umbilical cord blood stem cells are reported to hold great promis...nly. LifeCell can bring into the country umbilical cord stem cell banking, as it already owns a family cord blood bank. LifeCell will also bring in its e...

New device to help spinal cord injury cases walk

...nto stimulates the muscles of patients with spinal cord injuries, helping to increase the walking function...rable improvement." Five patients, whose spinal cord injuries had taken place from two to 24 years prior to the study, completed two to five sessions per...

Rejuvenation of Stem cells by GSK-3 Inhibitor

...ation. Stem cells from bone marrow transplants and cord blood from fetus were used for regeneration of Imm...ow transplants and in patients receiving umbilical cord the amount of stem cells produced in the cancer patient was very low. Researchers from this study...

Stem Cell Bank In UK Would Require 150 Embryo-Derived Stem Cell Lines

... Alzheimer’s disease), cancer, diabetes and spinal cord injuries. Furthermore, it is estimated that a large number of stem cell lines would be required to match the recipient demand in most of the cases. It has been estimated that a one in five recipients would have a good match if the number of potenti...

Meningitis is rocking the capital again

...ninges’ refers to covering of the brain and spinal cord and ‘itis’ refers to inflammation. Meningitis is therefore an inflammation involving the coverings that protect the central nervous system. Meningitis of bacterial origin can be effectively treated with anti-biotics, if diagnosed early. The microor...

‘Life Cell’ In India Can store Cord Blood Stem Cells and Save Live

Stem cells from cord blood are discarded everyday in all maternity hosp...in India has been making the concept of preserving cord blood from newborn popular. It has collaborated with Cryo-Cell International- an American company. ....

Nerve regeneration for Spinal cord injuries

... cells which could help in the treatment of spinal cord injuries,// the researchers have got interesting r... Nervous system (CNS) consists of brain and spinal cord which does not regenerate when it is injured and the Peripheral nervous system (PNS) consists of a n...

Paralyzed Patients Can Be Trained To Walk With Robotic Treadmill

...nts who exhibit partial paralysis following spinal cord injury. In the future, rehabilitation strategies...e being sent by the device to the brain and spinal cord to control the body movements of the patient with regard to the machine. The patient can even visual...

Kalam To Lay Foundation Of Vellore Research Center

...search focus will be on the use of bone marrow and cord blood derived adult stem cells for the treatment of a variety of diseases, Dr George M Chandy, Director of the hospital, told a press conference. Research at the centre will look at the mechanisms of differentiation and expansion of cells and how t...

British Scientists Doubt Delhi Doctor’s Stem Cell Claim

...y well understood, specific application for spinal cord injury. And we have concerns with that. This doctor has not published a peer-reviewed paper. How can one independently verify the results?' The report quoted Shroff as saying that patients from the US and Britain were going to her for treatment, an...

LINK Applied Genomics Programme Promises To Revolutionize Healthcare Systems

... to regrow. This is especially important in spinal cord injuries where nerve connections are severed leading to paralysis. Scientists hope to find the gene responsible for stimulating nerve regrowth, which could be a huge boon to affected patients. This research could pave the way for stimulating regrow...

Inhibition of morphine tolerance by spinal melanocortin receptor blockade

...ocortin 4 receptor (MC4-R) mRNAs in the rat spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia (DRG) during morphine tole... RT-PCR they demonstrated no changes in the spinal cord but there was a decrease in MOR and increase in MC4-R gene expression in the DRG of rats tolerant to...

A Novel System For Clinical Banking Of Umbilical Cord Blood

...ly have designed a closed circuit, where Umbilical cord blood (UCB) collection and RBC depletion are perfo...iseases (available online 19 August 2005)Umbilical cord blood is a source of hematopoietic progenitor cells and is used as an alternative to the bone marrow...

Surgery to remove tumors in the spine

...umors which is located in the middle of the spinal cord and attached to the lining of the spine. Ames said, We are treating patients with this technique who are told by physicians that nothing more can be done and the next step is to train other surgeons in the technique so it is accessible to patients ...

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