Attention is directed to an article on the occurrence of extensor spasm in patients with a transected spinal cord printed elsewhere in this issue of the Journal. As the authors note, this ...

5,6 On the Paraplegia Service of the Cushing Veterans Administration Hospital, we have had the opportunity of studying 27 verified cases of complete transection of the spinal cord in white men.

2). ExoPTEN has been tested as an intra-nasally administered formulation in an extreme rat model of acute SCI: complete transection of the spinal cord resulting in paraplegia. In an internal ...

Testing targeted a complete spinal cord transection in rats, which is the strictest animal testing model, successfully demonstrating significant functional recovery. The company notes that the ...

Multiple sclerosis causes lesions to the spinal cord and other parts of the central nervous system. An MRI can detect spinal cord lesions and help diagnose and monitor the condition. Multiple ...

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A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first clinical study of its kind, Japanese scientists said. There is currently ...

A 9-month-old adult female Sprague-Dawley rat from a colony of spinally transected rats presented 10 days after spinal cord transection surgery with a 2-day history of abdominal distention.

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