Transport of NGFs plus/minus MIF-1 into spinal cord

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  May 1, 1997 ;     410 words ...PURPOSE-Severe damage to the spinal cord has devastating consequences because...accomplish this regeneration of the spinal cord, an adequate supply of nerve growth...substances from the circulation into the spinal cord would open up new approaches to treatment...

Analysis: Spinal cord injury patients experience new hope with stem cell...

NPR All Things Considered;  November 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Analysis: Spinal cord injury patients experience new hope...be transplanted into people with spinal cord injuries to help repair damage and...treatment or repair of a damaged spinal cord was inconceivable a mere decade...

SENATE APPROVES SEN. KOHL'S REQUEST FOR $32.5 MILLION FOR SPINAL CORD...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 15, 2006 ;     423 words ......for $32.5 million for the Spinal Cord Injury Unit at the Milwaukee Veterans Administration (VA) Zablocki Medical Center...being done at the Zablocki Spinal Cord Injury Unit cannot be easily...Affairs listed Zablocki's Spinal Cord Injury Unit as a priority...Zablocki has ...

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center to Host 'Curing and Coping...

PR Newswire;  November 29, 2000 ;     688 words ......symposium and fund raising event for spinal cord injury research on Thursday, Nov. 30...will be directed to the Jane Carvey Spinal Cord Research Fund at Rush. Jane Carvey is...occupational therapist who suffered a major spinal cord injury in 1999. Her husband, Paul Carvey...

Vascular Events After Spinal Cord Injury: Contribution to Secondary...

Physical Therapy;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Spinal cord injury results in the initial physical disruption of structures in the spinal cord (primary insult) and in the generation of...improvement of neurological function in the injured spinal cord after myelotomy and removal of the contused...

Is the recovery of stepping following spinal cord injury mediated by...

Physical Therapy;  December 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......the efforts to regenerate the injured spinal cord as a primary means of regaining locomotor...recovery achieved by the mammal with spinal cord injury can be attributed to a reorganization...the loss of supraspinal input to the spinal cord is complete, locomotor networks in the...

Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy: A Common Cause of Spinal Cord Dysfunction...

American Family Physician;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......myelopathy is the most common cause of spinal cord dysfunction in older persons. The aging...stages, can cause compression of the spinal cord. Symptoms often develop insidiously...metastatic tumors) that press on the spinal cord. The diagnosis is confirmed by magnetic...

RESEARCH SHOWS SPINAL CORD CAN LEARN - EVEN WHEN SEVERED

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  January 2, 2006 ;     647 words ......convinced researchers that the spinal cord can learn, even when it is severed...shows that attempts to stimulate spinal cord learning must be carefully managed...patient benefit. "Patients with spinal cord injuries may be suffering pain...

Spanish beef seized after discovery of banned spinal cord: Foot- and-...

The Independent - London;  March 13, 2001 ;     354 words ......CONSIGNMENT of imported beef with banned spinal cord has been discovered at a Lancashire...Standards Agency said yesterday the spinal cord was found in two slabs of meat in a...imposed in response to the BSE crisis. Spinal cord, which poses the greatest risk of carrying...

Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Living

Mayo Clinic Proceedings;  July 1, 2001 ;     354 words ...Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Living, by Sara Palmer...practical aspects of adjusting to life after spinal cord injury. It also provides an overview...initial adjustment to the acute trauma of spinal cord injury, the initial hospitalization...

Locomotor training restores walking in a nonambulatory child with chronic,...

Physical Therapy;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......recovery of walking after incomplete spinal cord injury (SCI). (1,2) By using a treadmill...enhance intrinsic plasticity of the spinal cord central pattern generators for locomotion...neurotrophin expression, (9) as well as the spinal cord's inherent potential for neural circuit...

Researchers restore movement after spinal cord damage

The Hindustan Times;  January 7, 2008 ;     467 words ......follow a new pathway to restore movement after a spinal cord injury. Spinal cord injury suspends the pathway that brain uses to...highways that connected the brain and base of the spinal cord. The new finding has now opened up the possibility...

Neurorehabilitation in spinal cord cancer

Rehabilitation Oncology;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Spinal cord tumors can be described as primary or...tumors. The most common tumors that cause spinal cord compression by metastasis in descending...melanoma and lymphoma. Tumors of the spinal cord are less prevalent than intracranial...

JIM KELLY, TOM DONAHOE AND CURLY NEAL TAKE TO LINKS FOR SPINAL CORD...

PR Newswire;  June 14, 1995 ;     414 words ......BUTLER, Pa., June 14 /PRNewswire/ -- The Spinal Cord Society's 12th Annual Carl Stimac Memorial...Country Club. Held each year to benefit spinal cord injury cure research, the event is sponsored...Brady, PA. Stimac suffered a tragic spinal cord injury in a high school football game...

Damaged Spinal Cord Found to Have Great Potential for Nerve Regrowth.

PR Newswire;  July 15, 1999 ;     454 words ......July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Injury to the spinal cord can often result in dire consequences...new basic principle that the damaged spinal cord has, in fact, far greater potential...injury as being the major obstacle to spinal cord regeneration. In the Journal of Neuroscience...