Browse the latest research summaries in the field of bioinformatics for spinal cord injury patients and caregivers.
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PLOS ONE, 2025 • February 27, 2025
This study investigated the role of anoikis-related genes in neuropathic pain (NP), particularly in lumbar disc herniation (LDH). Machine learning algorithms identified six key genes (HGF, MMP13, ABL1...
KEY FINDING: Six key anoikis-related genes (HGF, MMP13, ABL1, ELANE, FASN, and LINC00324) were identified as having diagnostic value for NP.
Scientific Reports, 2025 • March 13, 2025
This study developed a combined radiomics and clinical model to predict the prognosis of cSCI patients six months post-injury. The model integrates radiomic features extracted using Pyradiomics and Re...
KEY FINDING: The SVM classifier achieved the highest AUC of 1.000 in the training set and 0.915 in the testing set for radiomics models.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 2022 • April 1, 2022
This study aimed to determine if functional ambulation measures could be accurately classified using clinical measures, demographics, personal factors, and limb accelerations during sleep in individua...
KEY FINDING: Combining limb accelerations (LA), clinical data, and demographic information resulted in the highest accuracy in classifying functional ambulation outcomes.
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 • June 10, 2021
This study investigates the protein biomarkers associated with the effectiveness of electroacupuncture (EA) in treating diabetic painful neuropathy (DPN) in rats. The study reveals that EA treatment i...
KEY FINDING: Electroacupuncture (EA) significantly increased the mechanical pain threshold in rats with diabetic painful neuropathy (DPN).
Scientific Data, 2021 • May 18, 2021
This study examined the effects of cortical electrical stimulation following spinal cord injury (SCI) on the transcriptional profile of the central nervous system (CNS) in rats. Adult female rats were...
KEY FINDING: The study provides a complete dataset of transcriptional changes in the central nervous system of rats with incomplete spinal cord injury following cortical electrical stimulation.
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 • August 9, 2021
This cohort study will follow four groups (stroke, spinal cord injury, limb amputation, and osteoarthritis) to understand the neuroplasticity mechanisms involved in motor rehabilitation. The study wil...
KEY FINDING: The study aims to identify neurophysiological biomarkers, particularly markers of inhibition, that have relevance in the scientific and therapeutic improvement in rehabilitation.
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021 • August 10, 2021
This study investigated the expression regulation of genes involved in synaptic plasticity also exploiting a data-driven approach for the analysis. We included in the study brain and SC areas outside ...
KEY FINDING: A different gene expression regulation is observed in the SC segments rostral and caudal to the lesion.
Sensors, 2021 • August 14, 2021
This study introduces a novel application of activity recognition to assist in the rehabilitation of SCI patients. The empirical results indicate the effectiveness of the method in recognizing all the...
KEY FINDING: The proposed method achieved an overall accuracy of 96.86% in recognizing physical activities.
Top Spinal Cord Inj Rehabil, 2020 • July 1, 2020
This study investigated the use of a low-cost Kinect v2 sensor and machine learning (ML) algorithms to automate the assessment of independent wheelchair sitting pivot transfer techniques. The results ...
KEY FINDING: The machine learning models achieved high accuracy in predicting TAI item scores, with AUC values ranging from 0.79 to 0.94 and precisions over 0.87.
Curr Opin Neurol, 2021 • December 1, 2021
We survey recent advances in methods and approaches that may allow for a more refined diagnosis and better prognostication after acute SCI, discuss how these may help deepen our understanding of SCI p...
KEY FINDING: Significantly elevated neutrophil numbers in the blood of patients with an acute traumatic SCI and the likelihood of little to no functional improvement at hospital discharge.