introduction: spinal cord injuries (sci) lead to permanent irreversible functional deficits.  poor prognosis of patients is the motivation of searching a treatment for the chronic injury.  planting stem cells provides us with a promising strategy. in the meanwhile, the use of olfactory ensheathing cells (oecs) has shown very good results.  this study aims at evaluating the effect of transplante...

prior animal models have shown that rats sustaining 3-second immediate spinal cord compression had significantly better functional recovery and smaller lesion volumes than rats subjected to compression times of 1 hour, 6 hours, 3 weeks, and 10 weeks after spinal cord injury. we compare locomotor rating scales and spinal cord histopathology after 3 seconds and 10 minute compression times. . ten ...

Stab injuries of the spinal cord are rare. We report a case of a 22-year-old male who was hospitalized because of a spinal cord injury resulting from a stab wound in the posterior thoracolumbar area. On admission, the patient had 2/5 muscle strength of the right leg (monoparesis) and hypoesthesia below the L1 level. Radiological investigation revealed the retained tip of a knife that penetrated...

Scientific interest to find a treatment for spinal cord injuries has led to the development of numerous experimental strategies to promote axonal regeneration across the spinal cord injury site. Although these strategies have been developed in acute injury paradigms and hold promise for individuals with spinal cord injuries in the future, little is known about their applicability for the vast m...

Somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) waveform recorded from the normal and injured spinal cord in rats were analyzed. A mild compression spinal cord injury was performed in two experimental models. The first model was used to assess the disappearance and the second one the return of the electrophysiological spinal cord function after injury. In the first experimental model typical changes in ...

Spinal cord injury is a rare disease with an incidence about 40 cases per million population in the USA. The most common reasons are traffic accidents, falls, violence and sports. A 53-year-old male patient presented with an incomplete tetraparesis as a result of a spinal cord injury after the accident. It was not possible to treat him with steroids because he was out of the therapeutic time pe...

the overall goal of this study was to identify the appropriate biomaterials able to facilitate the regeneration in rat's injured adult spinal cord. acute damage to axons is manifested as a breach in their membranes, ionexchange distortion across the compromised region, local depolarization and even conduction block. it would be of particular importance to interrupt the progress of events h...

INTRODUCTION Firearm injuries account for 13% to 17% of all spinal cord injuries, and are generally caused during warfare or assault with intent to kill. Spinal cord injuries caused by firearms are usually observed in patients aged 15 to 34 years old, and are especially common among men. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 28-year-old Iraqi man who was referred to our radiology departme...

Neuroprosthetic approaches have tremendous potential for the treatment of injuries to the brain and spinal cord by inducing appropriate neural activity in otherwise disordered circuits. Substantial work has demonstrated that stimulation applied to both the central and peripheral nervous system leads to immediate and in some cases sustained benefits after injury. Here we focus on cervical intras...