The development of treatment strategies that can help patients with
spinal cord injury to regain lost functions and an improved quality of
life is a major medical challenge, and experimental spinal cord research
has to meet these challenges by resolving fundamental problems,
establishing a basis for possible novel treatment strategies of spinal
cord injury, and motivating their clinical translation. In Animal
Models of Spinal Cord Repair, expert researchers examine a broad range
of experimental models for research on spinal cord injury, how they have
contributed to our current state of knowledge, and what their advantages
are in the further advancement of spinal cord repair. With models from
simple lamprey to non-human primates, the information presented is
intended to guide the implementation of animal models for spinal cord
repair as well as to raise the awareness of the relevance of
experimental models which may not be in the current mainstream of this
research. As a part of the Neuromethods series, this work contains the
kind of detailed description and implementation advice to guarantee
successful results in the laboratory.
Comprehensive and cutting-edge, Animal Models of Spinal Cord Repair
presents the background information and hands-on methods descriptions,
as well as the basic and clinical issues, needed to stimulate and guide
researchers with different backgrounds towards the development of
improved strategies for functionally relevant repair of the injured
human spinal cord.
