Spinal cord injury (SCI ... revealed that some astrocytes could transdifferentiate into oligodendrocytes under injury-induced conditions, thereby contributing to the remyelination process.

As the spinal cord matures, these progenitor cells ... that some astrocytes could transdifferentiate into oligodendrocytes under injury-induced conditions, thereby contributing to the ...

Spinal cord injury is a serious condition in which ... As set out above, this myelin sheath is created by oligodendrocytes. It was established that, also in MS, glial scars exist as caused ...

Background: Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) and mature oligodendrocytes are both ... 1 Brain and Spinal Injury Center, Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San ...

There are over 15 million people living with spinal cord injury (SCI) worldwide. Experimental treatments using electrical ...

OPC1 is designed to replace or support cells in the spinal cord that are absent or dysfunctional due to traumatic injury and is intended to help restore or augment functional activity in persons ...

Research on animals suggests the stimulation helps promote nerve growth and repairs some of the damage caused by the initial spinal cord injury, said Grégoire Courtine, co-founder of ONWARD ...

Dave Marver: So, if you have an injury, the communication between the brain and the spinal cord that controls movement and other functions, it's interrupted. Anderson Cooper: Dave Marver is the ...

This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and China’s National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) approved the global clinical trial to treat spinal cord injury (SCI), which is ...

In 2006, Wolfgang Jäger was in his 30s when a skiing accident left the young Austrian wheelchair-bound from a spinal cord injury. Fast-forward to today, where an innovative deep-brain stimulation ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...

Callahan has a spinal cord injury, so he wasn’t supporting all of his own weight or moving his legs by himself. But something had changed. He had a little bit of sensation in his feet.