Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered clues as to how our bodies turn sensations such as ...

This implies that the metamere of the spinal cord and the 31 pairs of spinal nerves, which innervate striated muscles (myotomes) and skin (dermatomes), must be arranged as follows: seven cervical, 12 ...

In mice that selectively lack this isoform, SCPs initially populate spinal nerves, but their number is ... to give rise to neurons in dorsal root sensory ganglia and glia (2), or glia, autonomic ...

This is because each spinal nerve root—one on each side of the body—services a specific area of skin called a dermatome. When a shingles outbreak occurs, only that dermatome on that side of the body ...

I was being bed-bathed when a cheerful young doctor popped up to ask if he may insert his finger in my rectum (part of a test to rate my spinal nerve damage); the ‘chef’s kiss’ to my ...