Abstract
Spinal cord injury (SCI) frequently results in the devastating loss of such neurological functions as mobility, sensation, and autonomic control below the level of the lesion. A number of regenerative approaches to possibly regain these functions have been examined in SCI models. Recent progress in isolating and culturing multipotent neural stem cells (NSCs) and neural progenitor cells from developing or even adult CNS tissue (1–8) has allowed neural stem cells to emerge as an intriguing and potentially useful means of promoting neural repair.
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Lu, P., Snyder, E.Y., Tuszynski, M.H. (2003). Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injury. In: Zigova, T., Snyder, E.Y., Sanberg, P.R. (eds) Neural Stem Cells for Brain and Spinal Cord Repair. Contemporary Neuroscience. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-298-2_13
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