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

Hirayama disease is a rare neurological disorder primarily affecting young males. This condition poses diagnostic challenges ...

The main finding was that ventral premotor cortex and supplementary motor area showed topographically distinct alterations in their connectivity with the spinal cord. Specifically, we found a reduced ...

Washington DC: Researchers devised a process to convert a skin cell directly into a neuron ... of motor neurons, which could potentially be used to treat patients with spinal cord injuries ...

If replicated in human cells, it could create large quantities of motor neurons for treating mobility-impairing conditions like spinal cord injuries ... Their breakthrough improved neuron yields by ...

Evidence suggests that MALAT1 interacts with Nrf2 to suppress neuron apoptosis associated with SCI (47). Additionally, NEAT1 silencing has been shown to mitigate spinal cord injury and decrease cavity ...

"The results reinforce ExoPTEN's potential to enhance the body's natural repair mechanisms following spinal cord injury. Notably, the increased blood vessel size observed in treated subjects indicated ...

The trial involves a 52-week dose-escalation study across four US centers, enrolling 16 adults with spinal cord injury-related neurogenic ... [while] preserving motor neuron and retaining normal ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI)-a condition that leads to ... Despite recent advances in SCI treatment, restoring lost motor ...

Such neurons could be used to treat spinal cord injuries or diseases such as ... we're going directly from a somatic cell to a motor neuron." Galloway's research group and others have demonstrated ...