Spinal cord functions include carrying signals between the brain and the rest of the body. This article covers the key anatomy of the spinal cord and its functions. It also provides some ...

Dr. Li and colleagues developed a mouse model in which animals expressed extra Lin28 in some of their tissues. When full-grown, the animals were divided into groups that sustained spinal cord ...

More information: Sara Goltash et al, An optogenetic mouse model of hindlimb spasticity after spinal cord injury, ...

This research used a mouse model of spinal cord injury. However, abnormal, potentially life-threatening autonomic reflexes ...

A new study by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden demonstrated that spinal cord injury may be repaired by stem cells. Using a mouse model, the researchers showed that it is ...

In trials on living mice, the combination of implanted microprism and wearable microscope was able to image astrocytes, glial cells in the spinal cord involved in pain processing, and follow their ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Research conducted at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and The Ohio State University College of Medicine found that spinal cord injuries in mice cause an acquired ...

Using a reporter gene to see where it would wind up, they observed that the genetic instructions went where they had hoped — to the brain and spinal cord and ... with a mouse model of a severe ...

Mammals, from tiny rodents to humans, never usually recover from serious spinal cord or other central nervous system injuries. Except, it seems, for the African spiny mouse. In recent years ...