Spinal trauma: it all starts with mechanoreceptors

They are present in the spinal cord from birth, are sensitive to mechanical stimuli, and play an important role in triggering the pathological events that follow trauma. What happens if they are blocked? The extent of the damage decreases. This is the finding of a new study published in The Journal of Physiology and conducted by a team at Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), led by Professor Giuliano Taccola, with Atiyeh Mohammadshirazi as first author.

The study was carried out thanks to 5×1000 funding allocated to SISSA and conducted in Professor Taccola’s laboratory at the Gervasutta Hospital in Udine.