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Studies on the response of the central nervous system to injury generally require the use of two populations of animals — control and experimental. This places a premium on the choice of an experimental system which is sufficiently well defined to permit unequivocal conclusions that any changes are the result of the experimental manipulation rather than the natural variability of the system.
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Mendell, L.M., Nelson, S.G., Cope, T.C., Cope, T.C. (1981). Functional Synaptic Changes Caudal to Spinal Cord Transection. In: Flohr, H., Precht, W. (eds) Lesion-Induced Neuronal Plasticity in Sensorimotor Systems. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-68074-8_12
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