Sentence examples for cord inflammation from inspiring English sources

The only features of Devic disease, a variant of multiple sclerosis, are a band of spinal cord inflammation and demyelination and optic nerve involvement.

In the third stage, the spirochete invades the nervous system and may cause tabes dorsalis (see above The spinal cord: Inflammation) or chronic syphilitic encephalitis, which causes progressive dementia and signs of focal damage to the brain.

The second priority is to define the presence or absence of spinal cord inflammation.

But for some, West Nile disease causes fatal brain and spinal cord inflammation.

Transmitted through mosquito bites, West Nile causes fatal brain and spinal cord inflammation in a small percentage of people who are bitten.

The aim of pathologic examination was to characterize the extent of umbilical cord inflammation and the involvement of the vein (phlebitis), the involvement of one or both arteries (arteritis), and the presence of inflammation of the Wharton's jelly.

Muscle atrophy results from a range of physiological conditions, including immobilization, spinal cord damage, inflammation and aging.

US findings mimic those on physical examination and include a thickened hypoechoic, hyperemic spermatic cord with inflammation and phlegmon lateral to the testis (Fig. 3c).

In contrast, T cells showing a wide range of Th17∶Th1 ratios induce spinal cord parenchymal inflammation [17].

This may explain why DNA vaccination suppresses EAE, since Th17 cells mediate EAE [15], although Th1 cells also have a role in spinal cord parenchymal inflammation [17].

The first cells possibly expressing RAE-1 are macrophages recruited in the spinal cord after inflammation since LPS treated macrophages express RAE-1 [31].