Using cannabis for pain management after spinal cord injury: a qualitative study.

Study Design: A descriptive qualitative study.

Objectives: To explore why individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) choose to use cannabis to manage their pain and their experiences in doing so.

Setting: Community-dwelling adults with SCI in New Zealand.

The enigma of cannabis use in spinal cord injury.

Cannabis use in medicine continues to confound practitioners. There is confusing interpretation of the efficacy and adverse event data, highlighting the complexity of this unique plant. Cannabis may have a neuroprotective role in SCI.

Hope, coping and psychosocial adjustment after spinal cord injury.

Introduction: The study was a prospective, longitudinal design. The purpose was to explore the role of hope in the coping and psychosocial adjustment process following a spinal cord injury. The study was conducted at Spinal cord injury rehabilitation units in Queensland, Australia and Christchurch, New Zealand.

Aging Impairs the Ability of Conventional Dendritic Cells to Cross-Prime CD8+ T Cells upon Stimulation with a TLR7 Ligand.

The aging process is accompanied by altered immune system functioning and an increased risk of infection. Dendritic cells (DCs) are antigen-presenting cells that play a key role in both adaptive and innate immunity, but how aging affects DCs and their influence on immunity has not been thoroughly established. Here we examined the function of conventional DCs (cDCs) in old mice after TLR7 stimulation, focusing on their ability to cross-prime CD8+ T cells.