Abstract
Experimental spinal cord injury (SCI) can maintain the continuity of the spinal cord, as in the contusion (e.g., weight-fall) or compression models, or not, when there is a partial or a complete transection. The majority of acute human SCI is not followed by complete transection, but there is a combination of contusion, compression, and possibly partial transection. The method described here is a compressive mouse model that presents a combination of contusion and compression components and has many facilities in its execution. This lesion was established by our group and represents a simple, reliable, and inexpensive clip compression model with functional and morphological reproducibility. In this chapter we describe, step by step, the protocol of this experimental SCI.
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Marques, S.A., de Almeida, F.M., Mostacada, K., Martinez, A.M.B. (2014). A Highly Reproducible Mouse Model of Compression Spinal Cord Injury. In: Murray, A. (eds) Axon Growth and Regeneration. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1162. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0777-9_12
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