These nerves travel from your spinal cord ... treatments such as injections or surgery for your lumbar spine. Understanding the basic anatomy of the five lumbar bones that make up your low back ...

The process may someday be used in humans with spinal cord injuries to minimize or reverse the damage to nerve cells that results in paralysis, says Richard B. Borgens, professor of developmental ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system. The brain is the command center for your body, and the spinal cord is the pathway for messages sent by the brain to the body and from ...

The answer lies in a membranous structure called myelin ... and oligodendrocytes in the central nervous system (CNS: brain and spinal cord). In the PNS, one Schwann cell forms a single myelin ...