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Description:: Spinal cord injury occurs with a worldwide incidence of 13-33 cases per million per year, and more than 2.5 million patients worldwide suffer from spinal cord injury (SCI)-related disability (1, 2). Different methods have been attempted to promote axonal regeneration, including neurotrophin injection, hydrogel injection, olfactory ensheathing cells implantation and...
Keyword:: Nanotechnology, Cord Injury, Fibrosis, and Therapeutics
Subject:: Driskill Graduate Training Program in Life Sciences
Creator:: Suji Jeong
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/08/2019
Date Modified:: 02/09/2019
Date Created:: 2017-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Fibrosis is a chronic pathology which commonly develops after chronic inflammation. Different specific kinds of inflammation have been linked to fibrosis across various tissues. When specifically occurring in the prostate, fibrosis can lead to urinary dysfunction. Prostate conditions that involve inflammation have also been linked to both prostate fibrosis and...
Keyword:: Inflammation, Prostate, Fibrosis, Urinary Dysfunction, Immunology, and Type 2 cytokines
Subject:: Immunology
Creator:: Bell-Cohn, Ashlee
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 01/21/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_742505 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15093

Description:: Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating injury, which can be caused by motor vehicle accidents, violence, and non-traumatic causes. These injuries can leave patients with lifelong paralysis, as well as incontinence and life threatening autonomic dysreflexia. There is currently no FDA approved treatment for SCI. Spinal injury disrupts the...
Keyword:: Nanotechnology, Fibronectin, Spinal Cord Injury, Fibrosis, Mechanical Properties, and Gliosis
Subject:: Biology, Biomechanics, and Neurosciences
Creator:: Cooper, John Gregory
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14557 and etdadmin_upload_650745

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