The postulated mechanisms of injury include direct needle trauma, secondary constriction by scar, and direct nerve fiber damage, due to both axon and Schwann cell, with a breakdown in the blood ...

Damage to myelin, the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibers, impairs the brain's ability to transmit signals efficiently ...

The fiber mats to be tested were added to an EP tube with ... LRP4 belonged to the low-density lipoprotein receptor family. In a zebrafish model of nerve regeneration, axons in wild-type zebrafish ...

Boosting communication between the spinal nerves and the muscles using the spinal cord stimulation reverses spinal muscle atrophy (SMA) progression and could be applied to other motoneuron diseases, ...

A new drug-free, minimally invasive intervention targets the root cause of progressive loss of neural function in spinal ...

In December 1993, former World Boxing Champion John Famechon, who had suffered a severe brain injury in August 1991, began participating in a new and novel multi-movement therapy ...

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