People with spinal cord injuries suffer from many complications in addition to paralysis and numbness. Some of these problems are caused by a lack of the neurotransmitter GABA in the injured ...

When GABA-producing cells are weakened, the spinal cord loses control over circuits controlling pain sensation as well as those responsible for emptying the bladder. A mature inhibitory neuron is ...

Mircrographs: Joao Braz, Neuron The inhibitory neurons that are damaged in the spinal cord to cause pain hypersensitivity release a molecule that normally transmits inhibitory signals — the ...

The UCSF team wanted to test whether implanting human cells that produce GABA into mice with spinal cord injuries could reroute the damaged circuits, and whether that could help address pain and ...

Your spinal cord’s pain processing circuits receive ... The neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) plays a key role in causing spinal inhibition, but whether GABA causes inhibition ...

Because physicians and researchers are able to pinpoint the precise location of a spinal cord injury and origin ... encode for gamma-aminobutyric acid or GABA into mice with sciatic nerve injuries ...

A Swiss research center is trying to use innovative technology to help restore bodily functions for paralyzed patients—and ...

Research teams have created a versatile set of gene delivery systems that can reach different neural cell types in the human ...

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When GABA-producing cells are weakened, the spinal cord loses control over circuits controlling pain sensation as well as those responsible for emptying the bladder. Previously, researchers led by ...