Restoring Function to the Injured Human Spinal Cord /
Of catastrophic traumas to the human body, spinal cord injury (SCI) has least benefited from innovations arising from the new biology. Since after WW II, the "standard of care" for SCI has changed little. The controversial use of high dosages of steroids has provided only modest benefit to...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg,
2003.
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| Series: | Advances in anatomy, embryology, and cell biology ;
171. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- From the contents: A brief primer on spinal cord injury
- The behavioral catastrophe is rooted in injury to white matter
- The scar as a barrier to regeneration
- Treating the acute and chronic injury: historical perspective
- Concerning behavioral models for spinal cord injury in animals
- Axonal regeneration
- Treatment possibilities of the new biology
- Biologically produced electrical fields: physiological spoken here
- Endogenous voltages and the reaction of the neuron to injury
- The responses of isolated nerve fibers in culture to applied DC voltages: historical perspective
- Enhancing spinal cord regeneration in situ with applied electrical fields
- Recovery of the CTM reflex in spinal injured guinea pigs after exposure to applied extracellular voltages
- From a laboratory tool to a clinical application.