BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine whether the diffusion tensor-derived radial diffusivity and axial diffusivity, measured in the cortico-spinal tract in the cervical cord, predict clinical recovery after a cord relapse in patients with multiple sclerosis, and change over time. METHODS Fourteen patients were clinically assessed at the onset of a cervical cord relapse and after ...

in worldwide, an estimated 40 cases per 1 million people reported with new spinal cord injuries each year. people with spinal cord injuries suffer from severe physical, psychological, social and economic problems. damaged or lost cells can't be replaced when the spinal cord is injured; therefore, its function becomes disturbed permanently. despite the significant advances in the understand...

Introduction: Functional MRI methods have been used to study sensorimotor processing in the brain and the Spinal cord. However, these techniques confront unwanted contributions to the measured signal from physiological fluctuations. For the spinal cord imaging, most of the challenges are consequences of cardiac and respiratory movement artifacts that are considered as signifi...

Neurological outcomes following spinal cord injury (SCI) are currently difficult to predict. While the initial American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale (AIS) grade can give an estimate o...

experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (eae), a demyelinating disease induced in the animals parallels multiple sclerosis in human in several aspects, provides a useful model to investigate multiple sclerosis. in this study, we have therefore used this model to study functions of nerve growth factor (ngf) in eae. ngf with considerable effects on neuron survival, proliferation and differentiati...

the prevalence of spinal cord injury (sci) is about 2.5 million in the worldwide and more than 130,000 new injuries reported each year. regeneration in the cns versus the pns is very different from the other tissues and many factors can prevent regeneration in pns and specially cns. previous researches demonstrated that regeneration of cns can inhibit by inhibitory molecules and glial scar. the...

spinal cord injury (sci) is a devastating condition with enormous personal and social costs. to develop preventive strategies, the determination of epidemiological features and causes is required. due to iran's high incidence of road traffic crash (rtc) injuries, epidemiologic data concerning specific causes of sci may assist in reducing this national health dilemma. in a retrospective stu...

spinal cord injuries (sci) are highly disabling and injuries. this study aims to describe the demographic and epidemiologic data on auto accident patients who were admitted at khatam alanbia hospital. the results obtained from 73 sci patients treated on the sci inpatient units of the khatam alanbia hospital (from march 2009 to march 2013) were evaluated retrospectively. then patient gender, age...