Understanding how to promote organ and appendage regeneration is a key goal of
regenerative medicine. The frog, Xenopus, can achieve both scar-free healing and tissue …

The capacity for long-distance axon regeneration and functional recovery after spinal cord
injury is poor in mammals but remarkable in some vertebrates, including fish and …

Vestibulospinal pathways activate contralateral motoneurons (MNs) in the thoracolumbar
spinal cord of the neonatal mouse exclusively via axons descending ipsilaterally from the …

To assess the organization and functional development of vestibulospinal inputs to cervical
motoneurons (MNs), we have used electrophysiology (ventral root and electromyographic …

This chapter focuses on injuries of extracranial, cranial, intracranial, spinal cord, and
peripheral nervous system structures, with emphasis on disorders related primarily to …

Transected spinal cord injury (SCT) is a devastating clinical disease that strongly affects a
patient's daily life and remains a great challenge for clinicians. Stem-cell therapy has been …

Dissociated primary neuronal cell culture remains an indispensable approach for
neurobiology research in order to investigate basic mechanisms underlying diverse …

In recent years, the interest in cell transplantation therapy using human dental pulp cells
(DPCs) has been increasing. However, significant differences exist in the individual cellular …

The extent of spontaneous recovery in patients with a spinal cord injury (SCI) has not been
thoroughly investigated. It is essentially not known whether SCI animals exhibit full recovery …

The adult mammalian central nervous system has limited regenerative ability, and spinal
cord injury (SCI) often causes lifelong motor disability. While regeneration is limited in …