Professor Yimin Zou and colleagues have published surprising results that reveal that RYK expression inhibits wound healing, ...

The National Institutes of Health funded the study. The human body relies on three kinds of opioid receptors to regulate pain, much like traffic control systems on a busy highway. Understanding these ...

WILLOW SPRINGS, Ill. (WGN) — There has been an extraordinary step forward in the treatment of spinal cord injuries. For the patients who come through the door of the Next Steps clinic in ...

Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study from researchers at UC San Francisco has found. This stops pain signals before they get to ...

The National Institutes of Health funded the study. The human body relies on three kinds of opioid receptors to regulate pain, much like traffic control systems on a busy highway. Understanding ...

The Research Center for Computer-Aided Drug Discovery, The Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen 518055, China University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, ...

Research also finds they also have lower pain thresholds, so less stimulation is needed to activate the receptors in the first ... be ways of increasing the number of opioid-releasing Tregs around the ...

The peripheral nervous system includes nerves and ganglia that are located outside the brain and the spinal cord ... of the spinal cord. Modulating nerve fibers can release inhibitory substances at ...

This manuscript represents a fundamental contribution demonstrating that fentanyl-induced respiratory depression can be reversed with a peripherally-restricted mu opioid receptor antagonist. The paper ...

This groundbreaking system is forging a new path for individuals facing spinal cord injuries. Individuals like Rick Arnold. "I have MS," said Arnold. "I was diagnosed in 2007." Arnold is rediscovering ...

Researchers at Keio University have begun using induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) to treat and maybe even cure severe spinal cord injuries. The iPS technology was first conceived by Shinya ...