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Scientists discover new, readily available source of stem cells

...ace damaged cells and tissue in conditions such as spinal cord injuries, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and stroke. ...

Robotic exoskeleton replaces muscle work

...tients or patients with incomplete injuries of the spinal cord," said Daniel Ferris, associate professor in ... our muscles tell them how to move. In people with spinal injuries or some neurological disorders, those electrical signals don't arrive full strength and are...

Stem cells act through multiple mechanisms to benefit mice with neurodegenerative disease

...sults in inexorable deterioration of the brain and spinal cord. Children suffering with Sandhoff rarely see their sixth birthday. Sandhoff mice are similarly affected. Tay-Sachs is predominant to Ashkenazi Jewish populations, while Sandhoff, a severe form of Tay-Sachs, is not limited to any ethnic group. Bo...

3 proteins may play important role in nerve-cell repair

...e important targets for treating stroke, brain and spinal cord injuries and also neurodegenerative diseases,...anslated in preclinical animal models of stroke or spinal cord injury." ...

When your brain talks, your muscles don't always listen

...ork involving the brain at the command center, the spinal cord, billions upon billions of nerve cells, and t...k with wheelchair athletes. "People with severe spinal cord injuries have limited cooling because they can't perspire below the site of injury," Knight sai...

A 'traffic light' for neurons means 'go' for improving brain research

...could allow doctors to bridge blockages in damaged spinal columns, perhaps restoring some function to the limbs of paralyzed patients. Finally, the technique could be useful in teasing out the largely unknown functioning of healthy brains. "One day we'd like to be able to understand the organization o...

Fast and slow -- How the spinal cord controls the speed of movement

...a state-of-the-art technique to map neurons in the spinal cord of a larval zebrafish, Cornell University sci... long-term implications for treating injured human spinal cords and Parkinson’s disease, where movements slow down and become erratic. The study, "A Topograp...

Human stem cell treatment restores motor function in paralyzed rats

...function six weeks after receiving grafts of human spinal stem cells (hSSCs), researchers from the Universit...grafting human neural stem cells directly into the spinal cord we can achieve a progressive recovery of motor function,” said Marsala. “This could some day p...

Detecting cold, feeling pain: Study reveals why menthol feels fresh

...tral nervous system – moving through nerves in the spinal cord and brain stem up to the brain, which prompts a response, or "feeling." Co-author of the current study Allan Basbaum, PhD, also of UCSF, is a pioneer of research into the mechanism of chronic pain within the central nervous system. The Juliu...

Researchers use MRI to predict recovery after spinal cord injury

...of full or partial recovery of patients with acute spinal cord injuries (SCI), according to a study publishe...people in the United States are living with SCI or spinal dysfunction. An estimated 7,800 new cases of SCI occur each year. Motor vehicle accidents account fo...

Experimental gene therapy 'abolishes' arthritis pain and lessens joint damage

... forth between an osteoarthritic jaw joint and the spinal cord. Thus, nerve cells involved in pain transmission, with so many more receptors on their surfaces, became drastically more responsive to the naturally occurring painkiller, researchers found. Gene therapy inserts tailor-made genes into cel...

AAAS decries latest stem cell veto

...eatments for devastating conditions like diabetes, spinal cord injuries, and Parkinson’s disease. The bill w...eatments for devastating conditions like diabetes, spinal cord injuries, and Parkinson's disease. The bill would mandate that such research be allowed to comp...

Scratch no more: Gene for itch sensation discovered

...for a receptor found in a very small population of spinal cord nerve cells where pain and itch signals are t...was responsible for itching in the brain or in the spinal cord until now." In fact, Chen's team became interested in GRPR because they were looking for genes...

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