The female sex hormone estrogen, along with progesterone, appears to underlie a fundamental difference in how males and ...

In response to stressful or dangerous stimuli, nerve ... cord injury," said Popovich, who also is executive director of Ohio State's Belford Center for Spinal Cord Injury. This research used a ...

These bundles, called nerves, send information to the brain and spinal cord about the world around ... Median nerve anatomy helps inform us about its function. Movements are caused by the ...

and spinal cord, where it suppresses neural stem cell proliferation and promotes differentiation into neurons. The researchers discovered that PROX1 accumulates in damaged mouse retinal Müller ...

You can divide up all the nerves in the body into roughly two parts: the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. The central nervous system contains two organs—the brain and the ...

Objectives There are many patients suffering from cervical radiculopathy or muscular atrophy of upper extremity due to C5, 6, 7 nerve root disorders. We have produced virtual anatomy of C5 ... both ...

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 CNS includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. A misdirected inflammatory response damages nerve cells of a protective coating called myelin. Myelin coats the nerve fibers from the ...

Experiencing a spinal cord injury is life-changing in nearly every aspect of a person’s well-being: physically, emotionally, and socially. The initial shock of the injury often comes with fear, ...

The same genes could hold the key to regenerating cells in the ear and eye, according to a new mouse study from the USC Stem ...