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Engineering spinal cord repair

Jordan W Squair et al. Curr Opin Biotechnol. 2021 Dec.

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Abstract

Neurological damage caused by spinal cord injury in humans has been observed for over three thousand years and impacts the lives of several hundred thousand people worldwide. Despite this prevalence and its associated consequences, there is no treatment to repair the injured spinal cord. Evidence gathered over the last several decades has provided mechanistic information on the complex cascade of events following traumatic spinal cord injury and this is paving the way towards mechanism based repair strategies. In this review, we summarize state-of-the-art biological and engineering repair strategies and posit that complete repair will be dependent on cataloguing the molecular signatures and growth requirements of the different neuron subpopulations in the brain and spinal cord.

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