The spinal cord is a long, ... which enter the spinal cord via the dorsal root. Some of these nerve fibers form connections with other nerves in the dorsal horn, ...

Many neuroscientists are not familiar with spinal cord neurons, called postsynaptic dorsal column (PSDC) neurons, that project from the spinal cord into the brainstem - and textbooks tend to leave ...

In humans, the spinal cord dorsal horn acts as a sorting station for pain stimuli. Signals coming in from peripheral areas of the body are processed and then transmitted via secondary neurons to ...

The spinal cord runs from the foramen magna to the second lumbar vertebrae and is divided into 31 segments, each with a pair of spinal nerves. The spinal cord is divided in half by a ventral median ...

Section of mouse dorsal horn spinal cord. Blue marks cell nuclei, red the neurons. Green highlights the acetylation level of histone 3, used to measure the activity of HDAC4.

Department of Neurosciences, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH Sensory ...

Loss of GABAergic interneurons in laminae I-III of the spinal cord dorsal horn contributes to reduced GABAergic tone and neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury. J Neurotrauma 2010;27:729-737.

Spinal cord stimulation masks pain signals through a transcutaneous implantable electric pulse generator. ... was first introduced in 1967.2, 3, 5 It is based on the principle of electrically ...

Furthermore, a global Tiam1 deletion in mice, or a conditional Tiam1 deletion from spinal dorsal horn neurons or from dorsal root ganglion neurons in the spine, prevented development of morphine ...