Borgens says the skin rippling test is a more reliable measure of post-injury behavior than tests designed to measure walking, because, unlike people, rats and some other animals can continue to walk ...

stimulated epidural electrodes in the dorsal column of the spinal cord in both acute pharmacologically induced dopamine-depleted mice and chronic 6-hydroxydopamine-lesioned rats. Movement was ...

Rats host the worm and pass larvae through ... “It’s pretty bad,” Pang said of the worm, which attacks the brain and spinal cord. “Some of the damage is permanent.” ...

Near-infrared light therapy has reduced inflammation and improved recovery in a mild traumatic brain injury rat model. Mild traumatic brain ... near-infrared light directly to the site of spinal cord ...

But what Geron wants most at this point is to develop a treatment for spinal cord injuries. Okarma clicks on a laptop and shows me a movie of white rats in a cage. "Pay attention to the tail and ...

In 2012, Courtine's discoveries led to an amazing achievement: a protocol that allowed paraplegic rats to walk again ... signals that can't be transmitted naturally because of a spinal cord injury.

They placed central and peripheral nerve cells taken from rats together in lab dishes to ... functional form at nerve terminals within the spinal cord is potentially quite exciting,' said Dr ...

Discover what really happens when you die — the brain's final surge, chemical releases, and the mysterious experiences at the ...

Targeting ceramide synthase enzymes may reduce multiple sclerosis severity by limiting ceramide C16 synthesis, offering ...

In vivo, when placed directly onto the dura of rats, DTA maintained its structure and was fully ... Wu and their colleagues focused on a tear in the dural sac enveloping the spinal cord of pigs. The ...

Rats were exposed to two-minute bursts of infrared light delivered ... device that can be used to enhance recovery for patients with traumatic brain or spinal cord injury, with the aim of improving ...