This new model, in contrast, recapitulates the development of all three sections of embryonic brain and spinal cord simultaneously—something that has not been achieved in previous models. While ...

More information: Sara Goltash et al, An optogenetic mouse model of hindlimb spasticity after spinal cord injury, Experimental Neurology (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2025.115157 ...

The two have been participating in the UAB Spinal Cord Injury Model System (SCIMS) research project for 50 years. The SCIMS was established in 1970 as a prospective longitudinal multicenter study on ...

Over the course of 40 days, the cells within the organoid self-organized into structures that resembled the early stages of brain and spinal cord development in a human embryo.

The roots of National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC) date back to 1970. At that time, the Rehabilitation Services Administration of the United States Department of Health Education and ...

Dextran-coated SPIO-labeled Schwann cells and OECs have been shown to remyelinate axons after transplantation into demyelinated lesions in the rat spinal cord. [38] ...