All Articles Tagged As: nerves

Nanosurgery on a Specially Designed Microchip Reveals Anesthetics Interfere with Nerve Regeneration Process (5/8/2008)

Researchers discovered that during surgery to sever worms nerves, its regenerated nerves up to 12 times faster without the use of anesthetics. ...> Full Article

Stem cell method treats Parkinson's symptoms in rats - MIT News Office (4/8/2008)

Researchers have demonstrated that artificially created stem cells can be used to treat symptoms of Parkinson's disease in rats ...> Full Article

Researchers Engineer First System of Human Nerve-Cell Tissue (3/31/2008)

Implications for Nerve Repair and Implantation ...> Full Article

Protein chaperone bulwark against nerve degeneration (3/19/2008)

A protein called NMNAT protects nerve cells from degeneration by acting as a "chaperone," a molecule that helps other proteins fold into an active state ...> Full Article

Researchers Discover Two Proteins that Regulate Potassium in Stem Cells (3/17/2008)

The result could mean better detection and treatment of nerve and heart diseases. ...> Full Article

Bucks for Brains team brings in $4.7 million (2/19/2008)

The Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center (KSCIRC) at the University of Louisville has received three federal grants totaling $4.7 million to find therapies for spinal cord injuries. KSCIRC also will receive at $300,000 grant from the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust. ...> Full Article

RNA-Associated Introns Guide Nerve-Cell Channel Production, Researchers Find (2/7/2008)

Implications for Studying Learning, Memory, and Neurological Diseases ...> Full Article

Study holds new promise for patients recovering from spinal injuries (1/13/2008)

Spinal cord damage blocks the routes the brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking. For years, doctors believed that the only way injured patients could walk again was to regrow the long nerve highways that link the brain and base of the spinal cord. ...> Full Article

Scientists Tap Amniotic Fluid For Stem Cells (1/12/2008)

Scientists from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have reported success in using otherwise discarded amniotic fluid as a source of stem cells from which they have created muscle, bone, fat, blood vessel, nerve and liver cells in the laboratory. ...> Full Article

Protein in Human Hair Shows Promise for Regenerating Nerves (1/11/2008)

A protein found in human hair shows promise for promoting the regeneration of nerve tissue and could lead to a new treatment option when nerves are cut or crushed from trauma. ...> Full Article

Scientists restore walking after spinal cord injury (1/7/2008)

Spinal cord damage blocks the routes that the brain uses to send messages to the nerve cells that control walking. Until now, doctors believed that the only way for injured patients to walk again was to re-grow the long nerve highways that link the brain and base of the spinal cord. For the first time, a UCLA study shows that the central nervous system can reorganize itself and follow new pathways to restore the cellular communication required for movement. ...> Full Article

Team of Scientists Develops Non-Invasive Method to Track Nerve-Cell Development in Live Human Brain (11/10/2007)

A team of scientists have identified and validated the first biomarker that permits neural stem and progenitor cells (NPCs) to be tracked, non-invasively, in the brains of living human subjects. This important advance could lead to significantly better diagnosis and monitoring of brain tumors and a range of serious neurological and psychiatric disorders. ...> Full Article

Scientists Discover Novel Regulator for the Development of the Nervous System (8/15/2007)

Nerve cells must perform millions of neuronal processes and form connections between them during embryonic development to ensure that the nervous system will function properly. Dr. Marta Rosário and Prof. Walter Birchmeier from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch (Germany), a member of the Helmholtz-Association of National Research Centres, have discovered a novel regulator which is crucial for this process and which they named NOMA-GAP (Neurite-Outgrowth MultiAdaptor RhoGAP). ...> Full Article

A Step Forward In Understanding Tissue Damage After Spinal Cord Injury (8/3/2007)

Acute spinal cord injury can damage spinal cord tissue and result in loss of functions such as mobility or feeling. ...> Full Article

Blood Clotting Protein May Inhibit Spinal Cord Regeneration (7/9/2007)

Fibrinogen, a blood-clotting protein found in circulating blood, has been found to inhibit the growth of central nervous system neuronal cells, a process that is necessary for the regeneration of the spinal cord after traumatic injury. The findings by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, may explain why the human body is unable to repair itself after most spinal cord injuries. ...> Full Article

Scientists Reveal A Mechanism For Healthy Nerve Development (7/1/2007)

In a host of neurological diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS) and several neuropathies, the protective covering surrounding the nerves an insulating material called myelin is damaged. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science have now discovered an important new line of communication between nervous system cells that is crucial to the development of myelinated nerves a discovery that may aid in restoring the normal function of the affected nerve fibers. ...> Full Article

Human Stem Cell Treatment Restores Motor Function in Paralyzed Rats (6/2/2007)

Rats paralyzed due to loss of blood flow to the spine returned to near normal ambulatory function six weeks after receiving grafts of human spinal stem cells (hSSCs). ...> Full Article

Nanomedicine Opens The Way For Nerve Cell Regeneration (5/22/2007)

The ability to regenerate nerve cells in the body could reduce the effects of trauma and disease in a dramatic way. In two presentations at the NSTI Nanotech 2007 Conference, researchers describe the use of nanotechnology to enhance the regeneration of nerve cells. In the first method, developed at the University of Miami, researchers show how magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) may be used to create mechanical tension that stimulates the growth and elongation of axons of the central nervous system neurons. The second method from the University of California, Berkeley uses aligned nanofibers containing one or more growth factors to provide a bioactive matrix where nerve cells can regrow. ...> Full Article

Nerves Controlling Muscles Are Best Repaired With Similar Nerves (5/19/2007)

When repairing severed or damaged motor nerves with a donor nerve graft, surgeons have traditionally used a sensory nerve from another area of the patient's body. However, these patients often do not fully regain function in the injured area. ...> Full Article

De-activating Protein May Protect Nerve Fibers (4/24/2007)

OHSU findings could lead to first drug to treat progressive, disabling form of disease ...> Full Article

Three Proteins May Play Important Role in Nerve-Cell Repair (4/12/2007)

Some mature brain cells can grow new extensions when the amount of three particular proteins on their surface increases, a new study shows. The research examined three related receptor proteins, called GPR3, GPR6 and GPR12, on nerve cells in the brains of rats. ...> Full Article

Silk used to grow nerves (7/14/2006)

Researchers at Queen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry in London have developed a silk like fibre that can be used to grow nerve cells on. The silk, called Spidrex, comes from modified silk worms. The modified silk allows cells to bind to it easily. ...> Full Article