Until now, skin cells have been viewed as barriers that can respond to electric stimuli. Turns out, they also generate ...
What started out as a chance observation may have implications for healthcare down the road. This skin-nerve cell link could inform research on nervous system disorders that affect the skin. For ...
It has long been thought that only nerve and heart cells use electric impulses to communicate, while epithelial cells—which ...
It is a pacemaker-like device implanted under the skin in the chest with a wire connected to the left vagus nerve in the neck ... went from being unable to get out of bed to being productive ...
State-of-the-art tests like Electro Myography, nerve conduction studies and nerve or skin biopsies may corroborate or refute a doctor's initial suspicions that the pain is in fact caused by ...
The roots of these nerves branch out through openings in your vertebrae called foramen. Damage to these nerve roots can cause pain and loss of sensation along the nerve's pathway into your arm and ...