Publications by authors named "Taylor Marti"
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- The study investigates the effectiveness of different suturing techniques (non-absorbable nylon, absorbable vicryl, and fibrin glue) in nerve grafting for rats with sciatic nerve injuries.
- Results show that both vicryl and nylon sutures improved motor function significantly more than controls, with no major differences in nerve recovery overall among the different methods.
- The findings suggest that vicryl sutures are equally effective as nylon sutures for nerve repair, challenging the previous notion that non-absorbable sutures are superior.
After spinal cord injury, there is an extensive infiltration of immune cells, which exacerbates the injury and leads to further neural degeneration. Therefore, a major aim of current research involves targeting the immune response as a treatment for spinal cord injury. Although much research has been performed analyzing the complex inflammatory process following spinal cord injury, there remain major discrepancies within previous literature regarding the timeline of local cytokine regulation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedical research on neurologic ailments requires representative animal models to validate treatments before they are translated to human clinical trials. Rodents are the predominant animal model used in neurological research despite limited anatomic and physiologic similarities to humans. As a result, functional testing designed to assess locomotor recovery after neurologic impairment is well established in rodent models.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEndometriosis is a disease that affects approximately 5.5 million girls and women in their reproductive years in the United States and Canada. During the menstrual cycle, the endometrial lining of the uterus thickens in preparation to receive a fertilized egg.
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