U.S., Swiss Inventors Develop Neural Tissue Modification System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 6, 2008 ;     263 words ......Switzerland, have developed a neural tissue modification method. According...apparatus for altering a function of neural tissue in a patient. An electromagnetic signal is applied to the neural tissue through an electrode. The electromagnetic...

Functional neuromuscular stimulation (FNS)

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  April 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Electrical excitation of diseased or damaged neural tissue has been recognized for several decades...alternative, short of actual regeneration of neural tissue, can elicit the equivalent level of...stimulus can be delivered directly to the neural tissue to generate the desired ...

Calcium dynamics in the extracellular space of mammalian neural tissue

Biophysical Journal;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......scales and parameters of mammalian neural tissue, we introduce and justify a computational...Our results indicate that mammalian neural tissue is engineered to generate significant...system-was ousted by new evidence that neural tissue is an intricate network of discrete...

California Inventors Develop Neural Tissue Modulation System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 10, 2008 ;     322 words ......Altos Hills, Calif., have developed a neural tissue modulating system. According to the...methods and systems for modulating neural tissue including systems and components for...and/or neuromodulation of targeted neural tissue. Targeted neural tissue may include...

Neural tissue transplantation. (for spinal cord injury treatment)

Paraplegia News;  July 1, 1996 ;     521 words ......exciting research strategy--treating SCI by transplanting neural tissue directly into the site of injury. Although still in experimental...Achieving functional recovery after SCI by transplanting neural tissue, however, remains a complex challenge. Physicians and scientists...

Neural Tissue Engineering

The Scientist;  June 21, 2004 ;     700+ words ......artificial and biological scaffolds that guide regrowth, neural tissue engineering aims to bridge gaps in peripheral nerves, bypass...Medicine, Rochester, Minn. MAKING CONNECTIONS The bulk of neural tissue engineering efforts center on peripheral nerve repair, for...

cerebroside

A Dictionary of Chemistry;      50 words ......bound to a sphingolipid (see phospholipid ). The most common cerebrosides are galactocerebrosides, containing the sugar group galactose; they are found in the plasma membranes of neural tissue and are abundant in the myelin sheaths of neurones.

Stabilizing electrode-host interfaces: A tissue engineering approach

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......its potential to promote in-growth of neural tissue and reduce sheer at the electrode-host...electrode coatings, FES, hydrogels, neural tissue engineering. INTRODUCTION The stability...engineered to promote in-growth of neural tissue and reduce inflammation and long-term...

'Precancer' gene localized in embryo, sperm.

Science News;  August 1, 1987 ;     331 words ......three-dimensional models of int-1 distribution in embryonic neural tissue (see photos). The figure on the left shows a 10 1/2-day embryo; that on the right shows a 14 1/2-day embryo. Neural tissue is indicated in green. The pink, red and blue regions...

Minnesota Inventors Develop Spinal Cord Parenchyma

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 31, 2008 ;     313 words ......capable of selectively affecting and adjusting a volume of neural tissue in the brain, parenchyma of the spinal cord, or a peripheral...established between the electrodes by the operator to stimulate the neural tissue surrounding these electrodes. The operator may also adjust...

Ohio Inventors Develop Neuromodulation Device

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 23, 2007 ;     292 words ......invention relates to a "device for modulating a volume of neural tissue comprising: a cannula having a proximal end, a distal end...deflect the plurality of leads radially outwardly into the neural tissue when the actuator mechanism is moved to the extended position...

Depressed Mice

Pharmaceutical Executive;  February 1, 2006 ;     79 words ......in the brain. According to the study, published in the January 6 issue of Science, depressed people have less p11 in their neural tissue than non-depressed individuals. Researchers found that a variety of depression treatments increased the amount of p11 present...

Cross-Polarized Reflected Light Measurement of Fast Optical Responses...

Biophysical Journal;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......and the conductivity properties of neural tissue. Penetrating electrode arrays requires...changes associated with activation of neural tissue began over a century ago (Mann, 1894...transient changes in the interaction of neural tissue with polarized light (Cohen et al...

California Inventor Develops Implantable Neural Stimulation Device

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 19, 2006 ;     281 words ......an implantable lead that applies the stimulation pulses to neural tissue. An activity sensor senses activity level of the patient...long term activity monitoring and closed loop control of neural tissue stimulation levels to adapt the stimulation therapy to changes...

Studies find men losing neural tissue from brains as they age

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 11, 1996 ;     315 words ......your ways? It may not be your imagination. According to recent research using sophisticated scanning techniques, men lose neural tissue from their brains at a fairly constant rate as they age. Not only that but it's also the tissue in which human beings take...