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Chunk #43 — iPSCs and spinal cord injuries

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Modeling Human Neurological and Neurodegenerative Diseases: From Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells to Neuronal Differentiation and Its Applications in Neurotrauma.
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In case of injury, the spinal cord does not spontaneously regenerate itself and till now there is not one available treatment that can provide the least functional recovery from SCI. The level at which the injury is present determines the symptoms and consequent motor manifestations. To date, cervical SCIs account for the majority of presented SCI cases (Doulames and Plant, 2016).