Acute spinal cord trauma is a common injury that occurs frequently in small animals. In order to acertain a prognosis of the lesion generated in the spinal cord, it is necessary to perform a complete neurological and ...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) affects 1.3 million North Americans, with more than half occurring after trauma. In Brazil, few studies have evaluated the epidemiology of SCI with an estimated incidence of 16 to 26 per million ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of ω-conotoxin MVIIC and mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) isolated and its association in rats submitted to acute spinal cord trauma. Thirty-six Rattus norvegicus, Wistar ...

Neuroinflammation is a hallmark of central nervous system pathologies, including spinal cord injury (SCI). In particular, the acute activation of macrophages and resident microglia are critically implicated in the detrimental ...

Acute and non-compressive disc extrusion is characterized by the acute character of extrusion of the nucleus pulposus without real compression of the spine. It has been called low-volume and high speed disc herniation or ...

Therapeutic intervention in the acute phase of spinal cord injury (SCI) aims to control the secondary neurotoxic process and to interrupt its progression. Thus, general anesthetics became target of diverse studies, since ...