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An estimated 18,000 people in the United States annually suffer from new injuries to their spinal cords. Unfortunately for ...

Assessing these injuries can be time consuming, costly, and challenging for patients and caregivers. "If you have a spinal cord injury, your main question is simple: Am I going to walk again? With the ...

Capitalizing on the flexibility of tiny cells inside the body's smallest blood vessels may be a powerful spinal cord repair strategy, new research suggests.

In mouse experiments, scientists introduced a specific type of recombinant protein to the site of a spinal cord injury where these cells, called pericytes, had flooded the lesion zone. Once exposed to ...

Imaging shows regeneration of sensory axons four weeks after a spinal cord injury in an adult mouse injected with PDGF-BB at the lesion site. COLUMBUS, Ohio – Capitalizing on the flexibility of ...