As the world's population ages, intervertebral disk degeneration (IDD) has become a major medical issue, causing chronic ...

When a person sustains an injury to the spinal cord, the normal communication between the brain and the spinal circuits below the injury are interrupted, resulting in paralysis.

ALS, also known as motor neurone disease, is an incurable condition that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord and causes increasing muscle ... Last month, the actor and model went back on ...

In real-world scenarios, the distribution of labeled and unlabeled samples is highly imbalanced, only a few labeled samples are available. SEI methods based on consistency regularization (CR) have ...

Scientists have analyzed blood samples from people who experienced acute spinal cord injuries (SCIs) and unaffected individuals, and have revealed biomarkers that can tell clinicians more about SCI ...

This groundbreaking system is forging a new path for individuals facing spinal cord injuries. Individuals like Rick Arnold. "I have MS," said Arnold. "I was diagnosed in 2007." Arnold is rediscovering ...

Taken together, these findings identify Marcks and Marcksl1 as critical new players in spinal cord development and regeneration and highlight the power of Xenopus as an experimental model for ...

Together, the brain and spinal cord that extends from it make up the central nervous system, or CNS. What is the brain made of? Weighing about 3 pounds in the average adult, the brain is about 60% fat ...

To test the analgesic effect of NT and the underlying mechanisms in SDH, a formalin pain model was employed ... Lumbar segments 3–5 of the spinal cord were obtained and postfixed with the same ...

Labeled vertebrae in two randomly chosen ... 2018) and could be seen as corroborating evidence of a correlation between spinal cord atrophy and neurodegeneration. In light of the only animal model ...