Spinal Cord Trauma: Regeneration, Neural Repair and Functional Recovery

Content: 
List of contributors
Pages v-x

Foreword by Christopher Reeve
Page xi

Preface
Page xiii
Lisa McKerracher, Guy Doucets, Serge Rossignol

Chapter 1 Advances in imaging of spinal cord injury: implications for treatment and patient evaluation Original Research Article
Pages 3-8
Robert M. Quencer

Chapter 2 A review of the adaptability and recovery of locomotion after spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 9-25
H. Harbeau, J. Fung, A. Leroux, M. Ladouceur

Chapter 3 Electrical stimulation for therapy and mobility after spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 27-34
Richard B. Stein, Su Ling Chong, Kelvin B. James, Aiko Kido, Gordon J. Bell, L.Aaron Tubman, Marc Bélanger

Chapter 4 Cell death in models of spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 37-47
Michael S. Beattie, Gerlinda E. Hermann, Richard C. Rogers, Jacqueline C. Bresnahan

Chapter 5 Gray matter repair in the cervical spinal cord Original Research Article
Pages 49-70
Paul J. Reier, Francis J. Golder, Donald C. Bolser, Charles Hubscher, Richard Johnson, Gregory W. Schrimsher, Margaret J. Velardo

Chapter 6 Spinal cord neural organization controlling the urinary bladder and striated sphincter Original Research Article
Pages 71-82
Susan J. Shefchyk

Chapter 7 Central mechanisms for autonomic dysreflexia after spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 83-95
Lynne C. Weaver, Daniel R. Marsh, Denis Gris, Susan O. Meakin, Gregory A. Dekaban

Chapter 8 The spinal locomotor CPG: a target after spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 97-108
Sten Grillner

Chapter 9 Activation and coordination of spinal motoneuron pools after spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 109-124
Arthur Prochazka, Vivian Mushahwar, Sergiy Yakovenko

Chapter 10 Propriospinal neurons involved in the control of locomotion: potential targets for repair strategies? Original Research Article
Pages 125-139
Larry M. Jordan, Brian J. Schmidt

Chapter 11 Use of robotics in assessing the adaptive capacity of the rat lumbar spinal cord Original Research Article
Pages 141-149
Ray D. de Leon, David J. Reinkensmeyer, Wojciech K. Timoszyk, Nicolas J. London, Roland R. Roy, V. Reggie Edgerton

Chapter 12 The cat model of spinal injury Original Research Article
Pages 151-168
S. Rossignol, C. Chau, N. Giroux, E. Brustein, L. Bouyer, J. Marcoux, C. Langlet, D. Barthelémy, J. Provencher, H. Leblond, H. Babeau, T.A. Reader

Chapter 13 Neurotrauma/neurodegeneration and mitochondrial dysfunction Original Research Article
Pages 171-176
Marina Frantseva, Jose Luis Perez Velazquez, Alexandre Tonkikh, Yana Adamchik, Peter L. Carlen

Chapter 14 Secondary injury mechanisms of spinal cord trauma: a novel therapeutic approach for the management of secondary pathophysiology with the sodium channel blocker riluzole Original Research Article
Pages 177-190
Gwen Schwartz, Michael G. Fehlings

Chapter 15 Strategies for regeneration and repair in spinal cord traumatic injury Original Research Article
Pages 191-212
Minerva Giménez y Ribotta, Manuel Gaviria, Véronique Menet, Alain Privat

Chapter 16 Locomotor recovery in chronic spinal rat: long-term pharmacological treatment or transplantation of embryonic neurons? Original Research Article
Pages 213-230
D. Orsal, J.-Y. Barthe, M. Antri, D. Feraboli-Lohnherr, A. Yakovleff, M.Giménez y Ribotta, A. Privat, J. Provencher, S. Rossignol

Chapter 17 Spinal cord contusion models Original Research Article
Pages 231-255
Wise Young

Chapter 18 Transplants and neurotrophic factors increase regeneration and recovery of function after spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 257-273
Barbara S. Bregman, Jean-Valery Coumans, Hai Ning Dai, Penelope L. Kuhn, James Lynskey, Marietta McAtee, Faheem Sandhu

Chapter 19 Bridging the transected or contused adult rat spinal cord with Schwann cell and olfactory ensheathing glia transplants Original Research Article
Pages 275-282
Mary Bartlett Bunge

Chapter 20 Potent possibilities: endogenous stem cells in the adult spinal cord Original Research Article
Pages 283-297
Adam C. Lipson, Philip J. Homer

Chapter 21 Repairing the damaged spinal cord: a summary of our early success with embryonic stem cell transplantation and remyelination Original Research Article
Pages 299-309
John W. McDonald, Michael J. Howard

Chapter 22 Chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans in the CNS injury response Original Research Article
Pages 313-332
Daniel A. Morgenstern, Richard A. Asher, James W. Fawcett

Chapter 23 The extracellular matrix in axon regeneration Original Research Article
Pages 333-349
Barbara Grimpe, Jerry Silver

Chapter 24 Increasing plasticity and functional recovery of the lesioned spinal cord Original Research Article
Pages 351-359
Martin E. Schwab

Chapter 25 Nogo and the Nogo-66 receptor Original Research Article
Pages 361-369
Alyson E. Fournier, Tadzia GrandPré, Graham Gould, Xingxing Wang, Stephen M. Strittmatter

Chapter 26 Inactivation of intracellular Rho to stimulate axon growth and regeneration Original Research Article
Pages 371-380
Benjamin Ellezam, Catherine Dubreuil, Matthew Winton, Leanna Loy, Pauline Dergham, Inmaculada Belles-Navarro, Lisa McKerracher

Chapter 27 A role for cAMP in regeneration during development and after injury Original Research Article
Pages 381-387
Jin Qiu, Dongming Cai, Marie T. Filbin

Chapter 28 Inosine stimulates axon growth in vitro and in the adult CNS Original Research Article
Pages 389-399
Larry I. Benowitz, David E. Goldberg, Nina Irwin

Chapter 29 T cell-based therapeutic vaccination for spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 401-406
Michal Schwartz, Ehud Hauben

Chapter 30 Recruiting the immune response to promote long distance axon regeneration after spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 407-414
Samuel David

Chapter 31 Spontaneous and neurotrophin-induced axonal plasticity after spinal cord injury Original Research Article
Pages 415-423
Armin Blesch, Mark H. Tuszynski

Chapter 32 Where the rubber meets the road: netrin expression and function in developing and adult nervous systems Original Research Article
Pages 425-442
Colleen Manitt, Timothy E. Kennedy

Chapter 33 Reinnervation of the pretectum in adult rats by regenerated retinal ganglion cell axons: anatomical and functional studies Original Research Article
Pages 443-452
Manuel Vidal-Sanz, Marcelino Avilés-Trigueros, Simon J.O. Whiteley, Yves Sauvé, Raymond D. Lund

Chapter 34 Seeking axon guidance molecules in the adult rat CNS Original Research Article
Pages 453-465
Guy Doucet, Audrey Petit

Subject index
Pages 467-470