INTRODUCTION Traumatic spine injuries are on the rise. The literature is sparse regarding epidemiology of patients with traumatic spine injuries from this part of the world. OBJECTIVES To analyse the following in patients with traumatic spine injuries with neurological deficits: demographic and social profile, common modes of injury, pre-hospitalisation practices, region of spine affected, se...

purpose: to evaluate of proton therapy (pt) for neurosurgery patients and is also to explain the need for this system in iran. methods: a literature review was conducted (1984–2016). the strategy included a combination of keywords including proton therapy, neck, neurosurgery, brain, head, tumor, spine, arteriovenous malformation (avms), cervical and spine in database of pubmed. new generation p...

background and aims: one of the most common injuries around the world is the traumatic injury of the spine and spinal cord with unknown worldwide situation of traumatic spinal cord injury (tsci) affecting on the effectiveness of preventive policy programs. in addition, because of possibility of making paralysis, the potential injury to the spine could be one of the most important traumas and a ...

Dendritic spines are micron-sized protrusions that harbor the majority of excitatory synapses in the central nervous system. The head of the spine is connected to the dendritic shaft by a 50-400 nm thin membrane tube, called the spine neck, which has been hypothesized to confine biochemical and electric signals within the spine compartment. Such compartmentalization could minimize interspinal c...

1. A compartmental model was employed to investigate the electrical behavior of a dendritic spine having excitable membrane at the spine head. Here we used the Hodgkin and Huxley equations to generate excitable membrane properties; in some cases the kinetics were modified to get a longer duration action potential. Passive membrane was assumed for both the spine stem and the dendritic shaft. Syn...