and a distinct layer of developing perineurium appears at the nerve surface. The SCP–Schwann cell transition therefore correlates with an important step in the organogenesis of peripheral nerves.

For decades, scientists assumed that neural stem cells (NSCs) only occur in the brain and spinal cord. A new international ...

Scientists have identified a previously unknown type of neural stem cell (pNSC) that exists outside the brain and spinal cord ...

Other scientists have only recently identified hot and cold nerve cell receptors in the peripheral nervous system located just beneath the skin. This is the system that tells the brain to pull the ...

The ability to harness peripheral neural stem cells could have far-reaching implications for the treatment of ...

The identification of peripheral neural stem cells could transform the treatment of Parkinson's disease and spinal cord ...

SHENZHEN -- Chinese scientists have, for the first time, confirmed the existence of microglia in the peripheral nervous ...

Peripheral neuropathy affects nerves outside ... When this transport is disrupted by disease nerve cells can malfunction and send random signals, resulting in pain, tingling, muscle spasms ...

Unfortunately, the regeneration of nerve cells can be inefficient ... We knew that upon injury to the peripheral nervous system, Schwann cells change their identity and turn into their repair ...