Fig. 1. Spinal cord transection. The vertebral column is gently tilted up with forceps allowing microscissors to cut intervertebral ligaments and to be inserted intervertebrally for a transection of the…
Fig. 1. A comparative overview of spinal cord blood vessels often targeted when modeling ischemic spinal cord injury caused by aortic cross clamping. In humans, the anterior spinal artery and…
Fig. 1. Mouse (left) and rat (right) MRI at 28 days following a moderate SCI. Images were taken using a T1-weighted protocol (a, b), a T1-weighted protocol with Gd contrast…
Fig. 1. Intact, lumbar dorsal root of adult rat. Horizontal section through several dorsal rootlets, immunostained with antibodies to laminin (green) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP; red ). The…
C1–C4 Skull, neck, upper thoracic area C3–C5 Diaphragm (lower thoracic area) C5 Shoulder C5–C7 Elbow C6 Wrist C7–T1 Finger C8 Thumb T1, T12 Chest wall and abdominal L2–L4 Hip L3…
Nerve cell disability Environmental factors Nerve cell body response Presence of growth inhibiting factors Scar tissue formation Formation of cavities and cysts at, below, and above the level of injury…
SCI model Uni/bilateral Region Species: Strain References Contusion Weight-drop Bilateral Cervical/thoracic Dog Rat: Sprague-Dawley Mouse: C57BLC (11, 12) (47) (50) (62) Weight-drop (NYU) Thoracic Rat: Long-Evans (48) Weight-drop, electromagnetic spinal…
7. Greenaway JB, Partlow GD, Gonsholt NL, Fisher KR (2001) Anatomy of the lumbosacral spinal cord in rabbits. J Am Anim Hosp Assoc 37:27–34PubMed 8. Zivin JA, DeGirolami U (1980)…
2. Anderson KD, Sharp KG, Hofstadter M, Irvine KA, Murray M, Steward O (2009) Forelimb locomotor assessment scale (FLAS): novel assessment of forelimb dysfunction after cervical spinal cord injury. Exp…
Fig. 1. Distribution of degenerating terminals in the neocortex of macaca mulatta following hemispherectomy (from Myers (45)). 2.3.2 Type of Callosal Connections The corpus callosum fibre organisation is heterogeneous, containing…
