Once dismissed as “junk,” a group of RNA molecules has been found to help regrow damaged nerves in mice in new research. The ...

Each spinal nerve comprises motor and sensory nerve fibers. Receptors present in the skin transmit signals to the spinal cord via sensory nerve fibers, which enter the spinal cord via the dorsal root.

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Surgery can prompt sensory nerves to ‘sprout’ fresh connections to spinal cord. THE quest to repair spinal cord injuries is a medical holy grail.

Autism may affect not just brain but sensory nerves, mouse study suggests. ... in either the brain or in touch receptor cells throughout their skin that go into the spinal cord.

Sensory neurons are nerve cells within the nervous system responsible for converting external stimuli from ... In humans, such reflex circuits are commonly located in the spinal cord. For more ...

An intervention, which involves electrical stimulation of the sensory spinal nerves, can gradually reawaken functionally silent motor neurons in the spinal cord and improve leg muscle strength and ...

Cutting the posterior (sensory) spinal roots is also an effective method of relieving visceral pain when it enters the cord over a small number of spinal segments, as is the case in angina ...

The tibial nerve stems from your spinal nerves, branching off of the largest nerve in your body: the sciatic nerve. Your tibial nerve anatomy includes motor branches and sensory branches.

This nerve also provides sensory innervation to your hip joint and upper thigh. Thanks in part to this obturator nerve function, ... The top of the nerve is rooted in spinal nerves L2, L3, and L4.

The spine contains many spaces, or foramen, that allow the spinal nerves to pass and travel to and from muscles and sensory nerve endings. A foraminotomy is a surgical procedure to widen those ...