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Getting on your nerves... and repairing them
02-15-2007 · EurekAlert!In a study to be published in the March 2007 issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists from East Carolina University report that a key molecular mechanism, RNA interference (RNAi), plays a role in the regeneration and repair of periphery nerves, which are the nerves located outside of the brain and spinal column. This research may lead to new therapies that manipulate RNAi to treat people with damaged nerves resulting from degenerative disorders and injury.
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- Getting on your nerves ... and repairing them
02-15-2007 · EurekAlert!
In a study to be published in the March 2007 issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists from East Carolina University report that a key molecular mechanism, RNA interference (RNAi), plays a role in the regeneration and repair of periphery nerves, which are the nerves located outside of the brain and spinal column. This research may lead to new therapies that manipulate RNAi to treat people with damaged nerves resulting from degenerative disorders and injury.
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- Nerves controlling muscles are best repaired with similar nerves
05-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
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. But now a team of surgeons at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Barnes-Jewish Hospital has found that repairing a motor nerve in rats with an intact motor nerve yields better results than using a sensory nerve.
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- Premenstrual symptoms getting on your nerves?
12-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
New findings published in the online open access journal BioPsychoSocial Medicine suggest not only that PMS is tied to decreased nerve activity each month, but also that those with extreme symptoms may have a permanently depressed nervous system.
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- Human stem cells delay start of Lou Gehrig's disease in rats
10-15-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that transplanting human stem cells into spinal cords of rats bred to duplicate Lou Gehrig's disease delays the start of nerve cell damage typical of the disease and slightly prolongs life. The grafted stem cells develop into nerve cells that make substantial connections with existing nerves and do not themselves succumb to Lou Gehrig's, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study is published in this week's issue of Transplantation.
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- Human Stem Cells Delay Start Of Lou Gehrig's Disease In Rats
10-15-2006 · ScienceDaily
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have shown that transplanting human stem cells into spinal cords of rats bred to duplicate Lou Gehrig's disease delays the start of nerve cell damage typical of the disease and slightly prolongs life. The grafted stem cells develop into nerve cells that make substantial connections with existing nerves and do not themselves succumb to Lou Gehrig's, also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The study is published in this week's issue of Transplantation.
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- Pregnancy hormone key to repairing nerve cell damage
02-20-2007 · EurekAlert!
The mystery of why multiple sclerosis (MS) tends to go into remission while women are pregnant may be the secret to overcoming the devastating neurodegenerative disease, according to University of Calgary researchers who have shown that the pregnancy-related hormone prolactin is responsible for rebuilding the protective coating around nerve cells. New paper to be published in Feb. 21 edition of the Journal of Neuroscience
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- Left-right wiring determined by neural communication in the embryonic worm
05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
The roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has nerves on its left and right sides that perform different functions. Now, researchers at The Rockefeller University and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute show that this arbitrary "handedness" in two types of olfactory nerve cells is established during development through a previously unseen system.
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- Researchers find 'zip code' spurs cargo transport in neurons
10-24-2006 · EurekAlert!
Getting molecular cargo from the cell body to the synapse of nerve cells is crucial for learning and memory, even for survival of the cell itself. New research conducted at Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., shows that a single peptide can load and direct this biological material. This peptide "ZIP Code" comes from amyloid precursor protein, the principal player in the development of Alzheimer's disease.
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- Mayo Clinic real-time 3-D ultrasound speeds patient recovery
07-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
Mayo Clinic physicians have adapted real-time 3-D ultrasound imaging devices -- including one designed to look at an infant's heart -- so that they can watch as they use a needle filled with anesthetic to numb individual nerves located inches under the skin. In this way, they can quickly block nerve function in selected areas of the body prior to surgery, an advance that may spare patients from use of general anesthesia, and sends them home faster and with less need for pain medication.
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- Protein in human hair shows promise for regenerating nerves
01-10-2008 · EurekAlert!
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.
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