Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus studying interactions between nerves and tumor microenvironments have found that commonly used drugs like botox may stop or slow the ...

Rice University and collaborators in Switzerland have developed a platform to grow human-derived nerve cells and Schwann cells, supporting cells that form a protective coating called myelin around ...

Researchers have discovered that an FDA-approved drug acts on support cells in the central nervous system to encourage sensory neurons to regrow after injury. A spinal cord injury damages the lines of ...

People who have severed nerves in their wrists or fingers and had them surgically sutured are often told, 'Sensation will ...

In January this year, a team of Johns Hopkins Medicine investigators, led by pathologist Aaron W. James, MD, Ph.D., discovered that sensory neurons in skeletal tissue are constantly sensing their ...

Nerve cells that sense touch grow the appropriate endings for hairy or hairless skin based on cues from the skin itself, rather than through predetermined programming, according to research led by ...

Scientists at Scripps Research say they have identified a protein in sensory nerves that works as a key detector of itch—specifically the “mechanical” itch stimulus of crawling insects, wool fibers, ...

Feeling from your knee down is relayed to your brain by the tibial nerve. This nerve is also responsible for sending messages from your brain down to your lower leg. The tibial nerve stems from your ...

A new meta-analysis of 36 randomized controlled trials suggests that acupuncture produces measurable improvements in nerve ...