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Spinal Cord Injury Animal Studies

Studies conducted at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery on spinal cord injury animal studies recently published

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, August 1st, 2008

A report, 'Effects of spinal cord injury and hindlimb immobilization on sublesional and supralesional bones in young growing rats,' is newly published data in Bone. "Both spinal cord injury (SCI) and hindlimb cast immobilization (HCI) cause reduction in maturation-related bone gain in young rats, but the effects of the two interventions on bone pathophysiology may be different. The objective of this study was to compare the effects of SCI and HCI on the sublesional/supralesional bones and bone turnover indicators in young rats," scientists writing in the journal Bone report.

"Forty male Sprague-Dawley rats (six-week-old) were randomized into four groups,...

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