News tagged with nerve root


Outpatient disc treatment gives long-term back pain relief

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A randomized, controlled study comparing standard conservative therapy to a minimally invasive treatment called percutaneous disc decompression for painful herniated disc revealed that while both treatments help patients ...


Simple bedside test improves diagnosis of chronic back pain, could guide treatment

Simple bedside test improves diagnosis of chronic back pain, could guide treatment

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A simple and inexpensive method of assessing pain, developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers, is better than currently used techniques for distinguishing neuropathic pain - pain caused ...





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Hybrid composite for root canal treatment

Hybrid composite for root canal treatment

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A dentist carrying out root canal treatment will need to use a variety of compounds. These do not always bond together properly and sometimes expensive follow-up treatment has to be performed. ...


British dentists warned of vCJD risk

Medicine & Health / Other

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

British dentists are being told not to re-use dental instruments from root canals because it could put patients at risk for mad cow disease.


Penn researchers engineer first system of human nerve-cell tissue

Penn researchers engineer first system of human nerve-cell tissue

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 26, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 2

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have demonstrated that living human nerve cells can be engineered into a network that could one day be used for transplants to repair damaged ...


Up a little on the left... now, over to the right... Scientists find a source of nonallergic itch

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scratching below the surface of a troublesome sensation that's equal parts tingle-tickle-prickle, sensory scientists from Johns Hopkins have discovered in mice a molecular basis for nonallergic itch.


Limping rat provides sciatica insights

Limping rat provides sciatica insights

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A newly developed animal model for the painful nerve condition known as sciatica should help researchers diagnose and treat it, according to Duke University bioengineers and surgeons.


New insight in nerve cell communication

New insight in nerve cell communication

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Communication between nerve cells is vital for our bodies to function. Part of this communication happens through vesicles containing signalling molecules called neurotransmitters. The vesicle fuses with the ...


Lab-grown nerves promote nerve regeneration after injury

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created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have engineered transplantable living nerve tissue that encourages and guides regeneration in an animal model. Results were published this month in Tissue En ...


New discovery about the formation of new brain cells

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created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The generation of new nerve cells in the brain is regulated by a peptide known as C3a, which directly affects the stem cells' maturation into nerve cells and is also important for the migration of new nerve cells through ...


Cell transplants may cure deafness

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created Apr 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When Uppsala researchers found immature stem cells in the inner ear of humans a few years ago, it caused a global sensation. They have also managed to grow hearing nerves from stem cells and human tissue ...


From nerve roots to plant roots -- research on hereditary spastic paraplegia yields surprises

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created Aug 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sprouting. Branching. Pruning. Neuroscientists have borrowed heavily from botanists to describe the way that neurons grow, but analogies between the growth of neurons and plants may be more than superficial. A new study from ...



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