CSF is constantly bathing the brain and spinal column, clearing out toxins and waste products released by nerve cells. One such waste product—the amyloid A-b peptide—increases the risk of Alzheimer's ...

Anesthesia is a process of using drugs to prevent pain during surgery or other medical procedures. Spinal and epidural anesthesia are two types of regional anesthesia used to numb a larger part of the ...

Researchers have designed, in mice, an approach to minimizing the damage from a spinal cord injury through the use of engineered immune cells. Mice given the treatment had improved recovery from ...

The skeletal system comprises 206 bones and has two main parts: the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton. The ...

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems. Vol. 14571, Issue. , p. 279. String diagrams are powerful graphical methods for reasoning in elementary category theory. Written in ...