Humans and other animal species can experience many types of pain throughout the course of their lives, varying in intensity, ...

The scientists implanted four spinal cord injury patients with pluripotent stem cells to grow millions of new neural cells. Okano said two patients recovered "some" motor function, with one ...

A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently ...

Spinal cord compression (SCC) occurs in 5% to 30% of the oncology population and affects patient function, comfort, and general quality of life. Patients with lung cancer, breast cancer ...

Apr. 3, 2025 — Parkinson's doesn't just affect movement and the brain -- it may also impact the heart, according to new research. Scientists suggest that targeting a key protein outside of the ...

How do these therapeutic interventions work to alleviate pain and restore physical function? We use animal models to determine behavioral and cellular changes in the brain, spinal cord and dorsal root ...

To count total motor neurons, brachial spinal cord sections were immunolabeled for Isl1/2 and Tuj1. Isl1/2 + cells in the ventral horn were counted and expressed as neurons per hemisection, averaging ...

Motor neurons carry impulses away from the central nervous system (made up of the brain and spinal cord) and control the movement of the body. These neurons coordinate muscle activity. Motor neurons ...

People’s Republic of China Jilin Engineering Research Center for Spine and Spinal Cord Injury, Changchun 130021, China Department of Orthopedics, the Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Xinjiang Medical ...