Spinal Cord Injury
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 187
Special Issue Editors
Interests: stem cells; gene therapy; spinal cord injury; Alzheimer’s disease; neurotrophic factors
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
After more than a century of research into axonal regeneration after CNS injury, effective therapies promoting neural repair are still lacking. However, the field is making progress, and we are nearing this goal thanks to stem cells, neurotrophic factors, inhibitory extracellular matrix degradation, and clinical trials involving a variety of drug-based approaches for altering the intrinsic cellular state and excitability.
This Special Issue will address many of these approaches, alongside efforts to translate them to human clinical trials. It will also cover how the use of the best pre-clinical spinal cord injury models in a manner mimicking clinical trial protocols can enhance the probability of success, together with well-designed clinical trials. We hope that this Special Issue will be informative in relaying the state of the field.
Prof. Dr. Mark H. Tuszynski
Dr. Paul Lu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- spinal cord injury
- axonal regeneration
- neural stem cells
- neural progenitor cells
- synaptic connection
- neuronal relay
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