background: the present study was designed to evaluate the secondary microglial activation processes after spinal cord injury (sci). methods: a quantitative histological study was performed to determine ed-1 positive cells, glial cell density, and cavitation size in untreated sci rats at days 1, 2, and 4, and weeks 1, 2, 3, and 4. results: the results of glial cell quantification along the 4900...

Background and aims: One of the most common injuries around the world is the traumatic injury of the spine and spinal cord with unknown worldwide situation of traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI) affecting on the effectiveness of preventive policy programs. In addition, because of possibility of making paralysis, the potential injury to the spine could be one of the most importa...

INTRODUCTION In recent years, several massive earthquakes have occurred across the globe. Multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is reliable in detecting spinal injuries. The purpose of this study was to compare the features of spinal injuries resulting from the Sichuan earthquake with those of non-earthquake-related spinal trauma using MDCT. METHODS Features of spinal injuries of 223 Sichu...

Background: Brown-Sequard syndrome (BSS) is a rare neurological condition resulting from a hemisection injury to or unilateral compression on the spinal cord. The most common causes of BSS that are amenable to be treated surgically can be divided into traumatic and non-traumatic injuries. Traumatic injuries are often reported as the main cause of BSS. However, non-traumatic injuries of the spin...

during the last few decades, focus of rehabilitation outcome has been redirected to the lifetime monitoring of quality of life. the purpose of this study was to investigate the differences in quality of life perceptions between participants with spinal cord injury and participants of typical population.this cross-sectional controlled study of 100 adults aged 18-65 years was based on two questio...

background: patients with spinal cord injury (sci) have a lower health related quality of life (hrqol) compared to both healthy controls and the normal population. the aim of this study was to compare hrqol between two groups of veteran and non-veteran sci patients. methods : all male paraplegic non-veterans who had sustained complete sci before 1988 and were residents of tehran province (iran)...

results the results showed that bbb test showed an improvement in the cr, while the quantitative analysis showed that the improvement rate was higher in the rats treated with cnl than those treated with bmscs only or the untreated animals, similar results were noticed in the improvement index. immunohistochemical analysis of the tissue section prepared from the cr showed that the transplanted c...