Professional Societies/Associations/Journals Spinal Cord Injury
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The following movie explores regenerative medicine and the spinal cord:
When the spinal cord gets injured, it can swell and cut off blood supply, some neuron cells die and break open spilling harmful chemicals, axons sweel and shed their coating and a scar forms. The passage of messages is interrupted!
View of the neurons that extend through our backbone
to make the spinal cord. The neurons in the center
have been severed due to injury!
View of the neurons that extend through our backbone
to make the spinal cord. The neurons in the center
have been severed due to injury!