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NFL football player with spinal cord injury recovers with hypothermia

Monday, February 15, 2010

Complete spinal cord injuries do not often occur in professional sports, but they can produce devastating results when they do. Although the primary injury is serious, a substantial amount of damage occurs during the secondary response to the injury. Much research has focused on reducing this secondary response, by slowing inflammation, cell death, or bleeding.

What predicts short and long term quality of life after spinal cord injury?

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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Quality of life describes a person’s sense of satisfaction in life and the ability to enjoy normal activities. Spinal cord injury may have tremendous impact on a person’s quality of life in general, and the specific factors that contribute most to quality of life were not previously well known. Additionally, it was not known if [...]

What can stem cells do for spinal cord injury?

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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One of the major consequences of spinal cord injury is death of neurons after the injury and the inability of surviving neurons to regenerate and repair their connections. This secondary injury can continue for even years after the incident and much research has been focused on promoting regeneration.

Legislative Report October 2009

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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The Legislature finally went into Interim Recess for the 2009-2010 Legislative Session on September 11. To say this first half of the two-year legislative session was the most difficult, heart wrenching, and brutal Sessions of all time would be a huge understatement. The on-going State fiscal crisis remains the dominate issue that is driving all [...]

An Impending Marriage is the Result of the 1st Annual Walk For Thought

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Dianna Bolen A life can change dramatically in a flash and sometimes for the best. On September 16, 2004, I, Dianna Bolen, was on my way to a bike fest in Las Vegas, NV on my 1993 Harley Davidson Sportster with 3 other bikers. For some unknown reason, and not even the highway patrol knows why, [...]

Strong Link Found Between Concussions and Brain Tissue Injury

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Concussions, whether from an accident, sporting event, or combat, can lead to permanent loss of higher level mental processes. Scientists have debated for centuries whether concussions involve structural damage to brain tissue or whether physiological changes that merely impair the way brain cells function, explain this loss. Now, for the first time, researchers at Albert [...]

Lexicon Genetics Awarded Grant From the United States Army for Study of Spinal Muscular Atrophy

Monday, October 2, 2006

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Thursday May 11, 7:30 am ET THE WOODLANDS, Texas, May 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Lexicon Genetics Incorporated (Nasdaq: LEXG – News) announced today that it was awarded a grant from the United States Army Medical Research & Materiel Command (USAMRMC) for the identification of targets that may be important in the development of drugs to prevent or [...]

Stem-cell tech improves spinal-cord injury

Friday, September 29, 2006

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By Christine Dell`amore Apr 27, 2006, 0:12 GMT WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) — A new stem-cell technology has allowed rats with spinal-cord injuries to walk again within two weeks, an advance that could one day help people with traumatic spinal-cord injuries.

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