Spinal Cord
Data Report on Spinal Cord Injury
... • The leading cause of spinal cord injury (SCI) varies by age. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause among persons under age 65, while SCI in persons age 65 years and older occur due mostly to falls. ...
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Spinal Cord Injuries (All Ages)
... the spinal cord as a result of injury or ...with spinal cord injury, and further admission if necessary for medical or surgical ...with spinal cord injury, including urology, ...
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Nutrition management of spinal cord injured patients: an investigation of resources and interventions in UK spinal cord injuries centres
... in spinal cord injury in 2007 and became Lead Dietitian at the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in ...following spinal cord ...
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Therapeutic potential of flavonoids in spinal cord injury
... Rutin exhibits neuroprotective effects through antioxidative and anti-inflammatory activity. In vitro, rutin reduces nitric oxide and pro-inflammatory cytokine production in SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells(Wang, Wang, et ...
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TAKING SPINAL CORD INJURY PATIENTS
... Session will demonstrate skills to equip participants with the ability to diagnose, intervene and prevent impairments, limitations and restrictions in bowel and bladder management after spinal cord injury. ...
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A Study of Spinal Cord Tumors
... Uncommon intradural tumors include the dermoids and epidermoids. Lipomas and teratomas also occur. The rare teratomas are intramedullary .The dermoid and epidermoid tumors occur in intramedullary location in the region ...
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DIASTEMATOMYELIA (CONGENITAL CLEFTS OF THE SPINAL CORD)
... By freeing up numer- ous adhesions which are usually present between the spinal cord and the dura in this re- gion, it is possible to retract each half of the cord in turn and continue e[r] ...
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Bowel Dysfunction in Spinal Cord Injury
... Forty one spinal cord injured patients consented to participate in this study. They came from varied living backgrounds, most of whom were in independent living homes while some were on their own. Patients ...
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1H MR Spectroscopy in the Human Spinal Cord
... Traumatic injuries, neoplastic disorders, infections, inflamma- tions, and degenerative changes cause microstructural and/or metabolic changes in neural tissue and may have an immediate and strong impact on quality of ...
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Radiologic evaluation of spinal cord fissures
... The immediate passage of contrast medium during metrizamide myelography from the subarachnoid sac into the spinal cord at the level of fracture-subluxation and cord tethering , a finding[r] ...
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Patterning of the vertebrate ventral spinal cord
... ventral spinal cord is patterned by translation of a Sonic hedgehog gradient into domains of transcription factor ...the spinal cord is shown as a dashed ...
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Advances in Spinal Cord MR Angiography
... the spinal cord car- ries the risk of neurologic ...the cord edema) of the level of the ...the spinal cord and its me- ninges may be ...
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Attenuation of Lower Thoracic, Lumbar, and Sacral Spinal Cord Motion: Implications for Imaging Human Spinal Cord Structure and Function
... the spinal cord/CSF interface, typically near the rostral margin of the image acquired at the first cardiac phase (peripheral ...the cord infe- riorly by analyzing voxel-wise signal intensities in a ...
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Spinal Cord Ependymoma - Surgical Management and Outcome.
... the spinal cord and filum terminale. Patients with spinal ependymoma usually experience gradual symptoms due to slow progression of the tumor; thus, early diagnosis can be challenging to ...treating ...
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Distribution of raphespinal fibers in the mouse spinal cord
... clarified spinal cord tissue revealed that serotoninergic fibers formed bundles regularly in a short distance along the rostrocaudal axis in the medial part of the ventral horn and they extended towards the ...
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Spinal Cord Regeneration: Ready, Set, Nogo
... Neurons in the peripheral nervous system (PNS) have the capability to regenerate after injury or disease while central nervous system (CNS) neurons do not. Elucidation of the reasons for this difference in regenerative ...
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Neuromodulation in the treatment of symptoms of spinal cord injury
... Peripheral stimulation is divided into functional electrostimulation - FES and somatosensory stimulation - TENS/SES. Both methods allow to improve the functions of paralyzed muscles, including the improvement of ...
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Complement receptor 2 is up regulated in the spinal cord following nerve root injury and modulates the spinal cord response
... Rat and mouse spinal cord sections were serially cut (14 μm) on a cryostat (Leica Microsystems, Wetzlar, Germany) at the level of the L4 segment. Detailed pro- tocols can be found in the Additional file 1. ...
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Spinal cord injury in the emergency context: review of program outcomes of a spinal cord injury rehabilitation program in Sri Lanka
... Several authors describe health complications of SCI pop- ulations in the humanitarian emergency context [10-13]. While comparisons are difficult due to variation in the co- hort composition and in the methodology, many ...
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Selective killing of spinal cord neural stem cells impairs locomotor recovery in a mouse model of spinal cord injury
... Background: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition mainly deriving from a traumatic damage of the spinal cord ...the spinal cord of mice subjected to ...
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