Grafts and functional recuperation

Issue title: Spinal Cord Neuroplasticity

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Goldberger, Michael | Murray, Marion | Tessler, Alan

Affiliations: Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19129 (USA)

Note: [] Correspondence: A. Tessler, Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19129, USA.

Abstract: Plasticity of undamaged projections (axonal sprouting) in the adult and neonatal mammalian spinal cord has been documented many times. It has been associated, in some paradigms, with recovery of specific functions and motor behavior. This mutually occurring recovery of function appears to be enhanced by transplants of fetal tissue.

DOI: 10.3233/RNN-1993-5118

Journal: Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 69-75, 1993