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Neurobiology of spinal cord injury
  1. Rike Zietlow

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    Edited by Robert G Kalb and Stephen M Strittmatter (Pp284, $125.00). Published by The Humana Press, New Jersey, 1999. ISBN 0-896-03672-3.

    “The future for regenerative therapies of the spinal cord is clearly very bright”—thus ends this volume in Humana's Contemporary Neuroscience series, which looks at different aspects of spinal cord injury with special attention to possible strategies for repair.

    Mechanisms of neuronal damage after injury, locomotor function in the transsected spinal cord, axon extension and elongation, as well as pharmacological and cell transplantation strategies to encourage axon regrowth and remyelination of remaining fibres, and current therapies for patients …

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