Vitamin B12 deficiency, common in strict vegetarians, those with pernicious anemia, or after certain gastric surgeries, damages the spinal cord’s long pathways controlling movement and sensation.

The team selected the sciatic nerve in rats as a model for regeneration, as it contains a complex, mixed nerve (sensory and motor) system. The researchers removed a section and prepared a cast of the ...

These genes were associated with neurodegeneration and pain-related pathways, suggesting lasting damage to dorsal root ganglia (spinal nerves that carry sensory messages from various receptors ...

11/23/2015 | New research on a toxin released by the body in response to spinal cord injuries could point to a new route for treating pain in people with such injuries, according to Riyi Shi, ...

By implanting electrodes in the brain and spinal cord to build a "nerve bypass" system between the two body parts, scientists from Fudan University in Shanghai have reached a breakthrough in brain ...

Not only was this marker also present in the spinal cord after injury, Zhang says, but he and his team tracked down the cells that produce it: non-neuronal cells called NG2 glia. NG2 glia serve as ...

There are not yet satisfactory treatments for chronic life-altering pain after nerve injury or cancer with bone metastasis. A unifying characteristic of this form of pain is “leakiness" and ...

To begin with, the experiments centered on nerve cells in culture. AZD1390 was found to stimulate new growth in this environment and inhibit the ATM protein kinase pathway.