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Shed a New Light on Spinal Cord Injury-induced Permanent Paralysis with the Brain-spine Interface

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This research highlight was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (82173796).

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  1. Xinhua Hospital of Zhejiang Province, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Key Laboratory of Neuropharmacology and Translational Medicine of Zhejiang Province, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310053, China

    Shuang Zou, Yang Zheng, Xuhong Jiang, Zhong Chen & Cenglin Xu

  2. Department of Neurology, Zhejiang Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, Hangzhou, 310060, China

    Yang Zheng & Xuhong Jiang

  3. Department of Neurosurgery, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310000, China

    Yu-Long Lan

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Zou, S., Zheng, Y., Jiang, X. et al. Shed a New Light on Spinal Cord Injury-induced Permanent Paralysis with the Brain-spine Interface. Neurosci. Bull. 39, 1898–1900 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-023-01127-5

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