Rat models of spinal cord injury: from pathology to potential therapies

J Kjell, L Olson - Disease models & mechanisms, 2016 - journals.biologists.com
ABSTRACT A long-standing goal of spinal cord injury research is to develop effective spinal
cord repair strategies for the clinic. Rat models of spinal cord injury provide an important …

Cell therapies for spinal cord injury: a review of the clinical trials and cell-type therapeutic potential

BF Ribeiro, BC da Cruz, BM de Sousa, PD Correia… - Brain, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is an as yet untreatable neuropathology that causes severe
dysfunction and disability. Cell-based therapies hold neuroregenerative and neuroprotective …

Phase 1 safety trial of autologous human schwann cell transplantation in chronic spinal cord injury

KL Gant, JD Guest, AE Palermo, A Vedantam… - Journal of …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
A phase 1 open-label, non-randomized clinical trial was conducted to determine feasibility
and safety of autologous human Schwann cell (ahSC) transplantation accompanied by …

Biomaterial-supported cell transplantation treatments for spinal cord injury: challenges and perspectives

S Liu, T Schackel, N Weidner… - Frontiers in cellular …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Spinal cord injury (SCI), resulting in para-and tetraplegia caused by the partial or complete
disruption of descending motor and ascending sensory neurons, represents a complex …

Non-invasive spinal cord electrical stimulation for arm and hand function in chronic tetraplegia: a safety and efficacy trial

C Moritz, EC Field-Fote, C Tefertiller, I van Nes… - Nature medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to permanent impairment of arm and hand functions.
Here we conducted a prospective, single-arm, multicenter, open-label, non-significant risk …

Exercise-induced plasticity in signaling pathways involved in motor recovery after spinal cord injury

JN Bilchak, G Caron, MP Côté - International journal of molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to numerous chronic and debilitating functional deficits that
greatly affect quality of life. While many pharmacological interventions have been explored …

Rehabilitation following spinal cord injury: how animal models can help our understanding of exercise-induced neuroplasticity

K Loy, FM Bareyre - Neural regeneration research, 2019 - journals.lww.com
Spinal cord injury is a devastating condition that is followed by long and often unsuccessful
recovery after trauma. The state of the art approach to manage paralysis and concomitant …

[BOK][B] Neurological aspects of spinal cord injury

N Weidner, R Rupp, KE Tansey - 2017 - Springer
Neurorehabilitation is a newer and smaller subspecialty in neurology and is largely
dominated by neurologists concerned with stroke and brain injury. Spinal cord injury and …

A directional 3D neurite outgrowth model for studying motor axon biology and disease

XM Spijkers, S Pasteuning-Vuhman, JC Dorleijn… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
We report a method to generate a 3D motor neuron model with segregated and directed
axonal outgrowth. iPSC-derived motor neurons are cultured in extracellular matrix gel in a …

Corticospinal motor circuit plasticity after spinal cord injury: harnessing neuroplasticity to improve functional outcomes

SF Kazim, CA Bowers, CD Cole, S Varela… - Molecular …, 2021 - Springer
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a devastating condition that affects approximately 294,000 people
in the USA and several millions worldwide. The corticospinal motor circuitry plays a major …