Lupus Foundation of America

Peripheral Nervous System Involvement is a Potential Complication of Lupus, Study Finds

Lupus can affect almost any part of the body, including the nervous system and brain. The central nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord, while the peripheral nervous system includes all of ...
Medical Xpress

3D imaging system reveals fine architecture of peripheral nervous systems in mouse body

A team has made a major breakthrough in the field of three-dimensional (3D) imaging of large-scale biological tissues. They developed the world's fastest high-definition 3D imaging technology for the ...
Psychology Today

Four Fun Facts About Your Peripheral Nervous System

Your brain gets all the glory while your other nervous system, the Peripheral Nervous System (PNS) toils away in thankless obscurity. What’s the PNS? Oh, merely the neurons that live outside of your ...
Medical Xpress

Microglia in the peripheral nervous system discovered to regulate neuron size

In a study published in Cell, a research team led by Prof. Li Hanjie from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has revealed the presence of ...
Lupus Foundation of America

Peripheral Nervous System Disease Proves an Important Part of Lupus-related Nerve Damage

A recent study aimed to explore how the peripheral nervous system (PNS) is affected in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Of the more than 1,800 people followed in the study, nearly 8% ...