"This new understanding opens up new avenues for exploring the mechanisms that may lead to the regeneration of nerve connections following spinal cord injury," explains Charron. And the more we ...

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Top: An acute spinal cord injury leads to an interruption of motor nerve pathways, resulting in paraplegia, a paralysis of arm and leg muscles. Center: The injured nerve pathways cannot recover ...

This leads to the formation of scar tissue ... increases infiltration of cells from spinal cord tissue into the material implant and improves regeneration of nerves throughout the injured area ...

Facet osteoarthritis and hypertrophy (from the increased stresses associated with disk degeneration) often lead to osteophyte formation ... compression of spinal nerve roots results in the typical ...

Scientists have uncovered a possible new method of enhancing nerve repair in the treatment of spinal cord injuries ... role in the process of scar formation in cell models in the laboratory.

In contrast, there are animals with a high capacity for nerve regeneration ... As a secondary effect, glial scar formation was suppressed after the subacute phase of spinal cord injury.

Horizon Therapeutics announced positive results of MRI data from the phase 3 clinical trial of Uplizna, which showed reduction in formation ... of the spinal cord, optic nerve and brain/brainstem ...

Nerve fibers are surrounded by a ... team used newly developed markers to visualize the formation myelin segments surrounding axons in the spinal cord of zebrafish. They concluded: Characteristic ...

It is known that scar tissue, which forms following spinal cord injury, creates an impenetrable barrier to nerve regeneration ... role in the process of scar formation in cell models in the ...

The spinal cord is made up of spinal nerves, which conduct signals from your brain to the rest of your body. The surrounding bone and tissues usually protect the nerves. If the spinal nerves are ...