News tagged with spinal canal


Multiple route bone marrow stem cell injections show promise to treat spinal cord injury

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers from DaVinci Biosciences, Costa Mesa, California, in collaboration with Hospital Luis Vernaza in Ecuador, have determined that injecting a patient's own bone marrow-derived stem cells (autologous BMCs) directly ...





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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. ...


A step forward in targeted pain therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jan 22, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Our bodies sense painful stimuli through certain receptors located in the skin, in joints and many internal organs. Specialized nerve fibers relay these signals coming from the periphery to the brain, where pain becomes conscious. ...


Fossil teeth of browsing horse found in Panama Canal earthworks

Fossil teeth of browsing horse found in Panama Canal earthworks

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rushing to salvage fossils from the Panama Canal earthworks, Aldo Rincon, paleontology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, unearthed a set of fossil teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, curator of ...


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Scientists make paralyzed rats walk again after spinal-cord injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 20, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 3

UCLA researchers have discovered that a combination of drugs, electrical stimulation and regular exercise can enable paralyzed rats to walk and even run again while supporting their full weight on a treadmill.


Researchers find ways to encourage spinal cord regeneration after injury

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Animal research is suggesting new ways to aid recovery after spinal cord injury. New studies demonstrate that diet affects recovery rate and show how to make stem cell therapies safer for spinal injury patients. The findings ...


Infiltrating blood-derived macrophages play a role in recovery from spinal cord injury in mice

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Although macrophages are known as essential players in wound healing, their contribution to recovery from spinal cord injury is a subject of debate.


Immune response to spinal cord injury may worsen damage

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

After spinal cord injury, certain immune cells collect in the spinal fluid and release high levels of antibodies. What, if anything, those antibodies do there is unknown.


'Volume dial' neurone may aid spinal disease

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scottish researchers have discovered a new class of neuron that may lead to new therapies for spinal injury.


No Asian carp found yet in Ill. fish kill (AP)

No Asian carp found yet in Ill. fish kill

Biology / Ecology

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

(AP) -- No Asian carp have been spotted so far in a Chicago canal during a massive fish kill aimed at trying to keep the giant fish out of the Great Lakes.


Artificial disc replacement as good or better than spinal fusion surgery (Audio)

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Spine surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other U.S. centers are reporting that artificial disc replacement works as well and often better than spinal fusion surgery. The two procedures are ...



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