The Effect of Timing of Decompression on Neurologic Recovery and Histopathologic Findings After Spinal Cord Compression in a Rat Model

Prior animal models have shown that rats sustaining 3-second immediate spinal cord compression had significantly better functional recovery and smaller lesion volumes than rats subjected to compression times of 1 hour, 6 hours, 3 weeks, and 10 weeks after spinal cord injury. We compare locomotor rat...

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Main Authors: Seyed Behzad Jazayeri, Masoumeh Firouzi, Shayan Abdollah Zadegan, Niloufar Saeedi, Elham Pirouz, Mohsen Nategh, Issa Jahanzad, Ahmad Mohebbi Ashtiani, Vafa Rahimi-Movaghar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2013-07-01
Series:Acta Medica Iranica
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Online Access:https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/4416