Section of mouse dorsal horn spinal cord. Blue marks cell nuclei, red the neurons. Green highlights the acetylation level of histone 3, used to measure the activity of HDAC4. This image may be used ...

Researchers have discovered the neural circuitry in the spinal cord that allows brain-independent motor learning. The study found two critical groups of spinal cord neurons, one necessary for new ...

Aya Takeoka at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan and colleagues have discovered the neural circuitry in the spinal cord that allows brain-independent motor learning. Published in ...

If blood in a living mouse is red, how come these blood vessels in a mouse’s spinal cord are multicolored? The answer lies in a research technique: scientists filled the vessels with a fluorescent gel ...

What is the anatomy of the spinal cord? The human spinal cord is a cylindrical structure of nerve tissue that is protected by the spinal column and composed of uniformly organized white and grey ...

In this study, spinal cords that associated limb position with an unpleasant experience learned to reposition the limb after only 10 minutes, and retained a memory the next day. Spinal cords that ...