These techniques allowed them to label specific neuron populations in the mouse spinal cord based on their activity while selectively activating or silencing these groups of neurons. Nocifensive ...

Recent mouse studies have demonstrated that ... A mature inhibitory neuron is shown after successfully migrated and integrated into the injured spinal cord. Photo by Jiadong Chen In the new paper, ...

While the body of a neuron is small ... imaging technique that allows them to directly visualize the spinal cord in living mouse models. With this approach, the researchers were able to ...

Until now, the details of neuron swelling in the spinal cord ... 30,000 neurons spread across a 3-millimeter span of spinal cord of each mouse. Cells called inhibitory neurons, which dampen ...

This research used a mouse model of spinal cord injury. However ... for this research will focus on identifying the specific ...

In mouse experiments, scientists introduced a specific type of recombinant protein to the site of a spinal cord injury where ... permissive substrate for the neuron to grow on," she said.

The scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore injected an ...

“This has allowed us to identify precisely the neuron that was necessary and sufficient for the regeneration of a neurological pathway after a spinal cord injury.” Following mouse ...

The degenerative effect was seen in both the spinal cord of non-human primates and in a sophisticated human motor-neuron cell culture ... account relative to mouse models or simple cell cultures.

They caused lab-grown human embryonic stem cells to differentiate into MGE-like inhibitory neuron ... Mitigate Mouse Bladder Dysfunction and Central Neuropathic Pain after Spinal Cord Injury ...