CSB332H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sciatic Nerve, Glial Scar, Schwann Cell
22 Mar 2013
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What can you do to help a patient with nerve injury: stem cells has shown promise in clinical trials. Sc is a type of glial cell in the pns; astrocytes and oligo are glial cells in the cns. Still have intact perineurium and endoneurium which will contain the schwann cells. Get that segment and transplant it to the area of the injury. Possible if you know the site of injury and innervation. Chronic and unpredictable exposure to these stress-related events does not allow you to habituate. Minor, once in a while stressors, are good increase your vigilance and exercises your mental faculties, develop prob solving strategies. Even without physical injuries, you can degenerate your neurons; such as chronic stress not wallerian type. 10% of the population suffers from depression. By 2020, it"ll be consider a second leading cause of disability (1 is cvd) The burden of cost to the medical community is staggering.
