Sentences with phrase «along the spinal cord»

While these changes can happen anywhere along the spinal cord, they usually happen in the mid to lower back.

Most infant spinal cord injuries happen in the neck region, and the higher up along the spinal cord the injury occurs, the more serious the damage.

SM is also an extremely serious condition in which fluid filled cavities develop along the spinal cord and brain.

For instance, nociceptors starting in the skin extend through the body to swellings along the spinal cord.

Interestingly, reactions near the injection sites were histologically different from the more diffuse inflammation found along the spinal cord.

Today a rising star in neuroscience at the University of Chicago, Zou made a name for himself by being the first to discover the molecular signals that guide axons longitudinally along the spinal cord, toward or away from the brain.

When DiI was applied to the RGC layer of induced eyes, labeled processes were observed projecting dorsocaudally along the spinal cord away from the tectum (unpublished data).

Fetal nerve cells growing along the spinal cord literally race against the clock to create connections within the developing nervous system.

These outstretched neurons, as long as several centimeters, seem to play a critical role in relaying messages along the spinal cord.

Traditional Chinese medicine can help if the cause of his condition is qi or blood stagnation due to traumatic injuries along the spinal cord, muscle, tendons, or ligaments.

A pet with a problem in its spinal cord will have the reflex, but will not realize it is painful because the nerves that travel along the spinal cord to the brain are injured.

If you are painfully pinched on your skin it is the nerve branches in your skin that relay a feeling of pain from the skin, to a local nerve branch, and eventually along your spinal cord to your brain.

My younger brother when he was 26, 27, really healthy, athletic, was in the army, and developed cysts along his spinal cord that had to be removed.