There are two types of tracts: ascending and descending tracts. The nerve fibers forming the ascending tract arise from the nerve cells present in the dorsal root ganglion.

"In breakthrough, nerve connections are regenerated after spinal cord injury." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 August 2010. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2010 / 08 / 100808212800.htm>.

The corticospinal tract is a collection of axons – the long, slender projections of a nerve cell that conduct electrical impulses – that travel between the cerebral cortex and the spinal cord ...

Chronic spinal cord injury (SCI) is a formidable hurdle that prevents a large number of injured axons from crossing the lesion, particularly the corticospinal tract (CST). Patients inflicted with ...

Importantly, overexpression of Lin28a by post-injury treatment with adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2) vector stimulates dramatic regeneration of descending spinal tracts and optic nerve axons ...

But the nerves in the human brain and spinal cord (and those of other large mammals) appear unable to fix themselves. Cut them with a knife or a bullet, or crush them with a sharp blow, and if ...

Upregulating Lin28a Promotes Axon Regeneration in Adult Mice with Optic Nerve and Spinal Cord Injury. Molecular Therapy, 2020; DOI: 10.1016/j.ymthe.2020.04.010 ...

New nerve connections form. Credit: The Lancet Neurology (2024). DOI: 10.1016/S1474-4422 (24)00447-2 ...

The latest study results have been published online in the renowned "The Lancet Neurology" journal. A multi-centre clinical trial (NISCI trial: Nogo-A Inhibition in acute Spinal Cord Injury Study ...