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Restoring Function to the Injured Human Spinal Cord: (171 Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology)

Restoring Function to the Injured Human Spinal Cord: (171 Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology)

          
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The book provides a general understanding of the biology of spinal cord injury (SCI) in animal models and their relationship to naturally occurring injury in man, and secondly reviews novel means to induce functional recovery from spinal cord injury based on developmental biophysics and physiology.

Table of Contents:
1 A Brief Primer on Spinal Cord Injury.- 1.1 Epidemiology.- 2 The Behavioral Catastrophe is Rooted in Injury to White Matter.- 2.1 The Ground Plan of the Spinal Cord.- 2.2 Characteristics of SCI.- 3 The Scar As a Barrier To Regeneration.- 3.1 Inhibitory Molecules.- 3.2 Other Cells Important to SCI.- 4 Treating the Acute and Chronic Injury: Historical Perspective.- 5 Concerning Behavioral Models for Spinal Cord Injury in Animals.- 5.1 When Walking is Not Walking.- 5.2 Injuring the Cord and Probing its Anatomy.- 6 Axonal Regeneration.- 6.1 Collateral Sprouting.- 6.2 A Neurons Journey: Integrating Guidance Cues.- 7 Treatment Possibilities of the New Biology.- 7.1 Restoration.- 7.2 Repair.- 7.3 Regeneration.- 8 Biologically Produced Electrical Fields: Physiology Spoken Here.- 8.1 Concerning Naturally Produced DC Voltage Gradients.- 8.2 The Skin Battery and Electric Embryos.- 9 Endogenous Voltages and the Reaction of the Neuron to Injury.- 10 The Responses of Isolated Nerve Fibers in Culture to Applied DC Voltages.- 10.1 Historical Perspective.- 10.2 Galvanotaxis: Rules and Trends.- 10.3 Extracellular Voltages and the Choices Neurons Make.- 11 Enhancing Spinal Cord Regeneration in situ with Applied Electric Fields.- 11.1 The Control of Regeneration of Nerve Fibers in the Fish Spinal Cord by Applied Electric Fields.- 11.2 The Anatomy of Regeneration of Spinal Cord Nerve Fibers in the Laboratory Rat and Guinea Pig.- 11.3 Guiding Spinal Cord Axons into Rubber Tubes with Applied Voltages.- 11.4 Anatomical Responses to Applied Voltages by Non-Neuronal Cells Important To Spinal Cord Injury: The Macrophage.- 12 Recovery of the CTM Reflex in Spinal Injured Guinea Pigs after Exposure To Applied Extracellular Voltages.- 13 From a Laboratory Tool To a Clinical Application.- 14 Naturally Occurring Spinal Injury in the Dog as a Model for Man.- 14.1 Clinical Trials of OFS in the Paraplegic Dog.- 14.2 Recovery of Function in Paraplegic Dogs.- 14.3 Combined Results of Both Clinical Trials of OFS.- 15 Sealing the Breach in Cell Membranes with Hydrophilic Polymers.- 15.1 Introduction.- 15.2 Spinal Cord Fusion: Proof of Concept.- 15.3 Repairing a Crush Injury with PEG.- 16 Recovery of Behavioral and Physiological Function in vivo.- 16.1 Polymer Injection Into the Blood Supply.- 16.2 Safety of Intravenous Polyethylene Glycol (PEG).- 17 PEG Application in Clinical Cases of Canine Paraplegia.- 17.1 The Amphiphilic Triblock Copolymers.- 18 Conclusion.- References.


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  • ISBN-13: 9783540443674
  • Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • Depth: 13
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 161
  • Series Title: 171 Advances in Anatomy, Embryology and Cell Biology
  • Weight: 263 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3540443673
  • Publisher Date: 17 Apr 2003
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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