News-Medical.Net September 13, 2025
A new PET tracer can provide insights into how spinal cord injuries affect not only the spinal cord, but also the brain, according to new research published in The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. By identifying synapse loss, the PET approach provides molecularly unique and complementary information to other structural imaging methods, offering a promising objective metric to evaluate novel therapeutics for spinal cord injuries.
According to the National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center, the annual incidence of traumatic spinal cord injury is about 54 cases per one million people, and approximately 308,600 people in the United States live with a spinal cord injury. Clinical outcomes vary based on injury severity and location, potentially leading to partial or complete loss of...
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