The connection takes place in a focused collection of abnormal vessels called the AVM nidus. These lesions represent about 20 percent of spinal vascular malformations and can present with bleeding ...

What am I looking at? This is an image of the blood vessels and pericytes in the spinal cord of a mouse. The blood vessels are shown in purple (1) and the pericytes in green (2). Biology in the ...

The brain and spinal cord are your body’s central nervous system ... and dilation/contraction of blood vessels (blood pressure).

They breach the meninges to infect the fluid running into the spinal cord. One clear ... The bacterial toxins rupture blood vessels and can rapidly shut down vital organs. Meningococcal bacteria ...

Cancers that spread to the spine move to the bone marrow of the vertebral column by way of blood vessels. Spinal cord compression can also occur through direct tumor extension, which is frequently ...

Spinal fluid is the fluid that surrounds the ... plastic tube into a large blood vessel, usually near the top of your thigh. Then he or she will advance the tube through your blood vessels past ...