Functional recovery following reptilean (Calotus calotus) spinal cord transection.

نویسنده

  • V K Srivastava
چکیده

Various approaches to remedy the effects of spinal cord injury have been suggested from time to time. One of these is to study the regeneration following spinal cord transection in phylogenetic lower species in order to gain some information from this for its application in non-regenerating spinal cord injuries in higher species. In the present study the functional recovery following spinal cord transection in a reptile (Calotus calotus) was studied in 30 animals, and it was observed that functional recovery was quite marked by 4 weeks and more or less comple by 6 weeks.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Indian journal of physiology and pharmacology

دوره 36 3  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1992