Background Ischemic spinal cord injury is a chain of events caused by the reduction and/or
cessation of spinal cord blood flow, which results in neuronal degeneration and loss.
Ischemic postconditioning is defined as a series of intermittent interruptions of blood flow in
the early phase of reperfusion and has been shown to reduce the infarct size in cerebral
ischemia. Our study aimed to characterize the relationship between the neuronal injury-
decreasing effects of citicoline and ischemic postconditioning, which were proven to be …