A Contusion Model of Severe Spinal Cord Injury in RatsVibhor Krishna 1, Hampton Andrews 1, Xing Jin 2, Jin Yu 1, Abhay Varma 1, Xuejun Wen 3, Mark Kindy 1
1Department of Neuroscience, Division of Neurosurgery, Medical University of South Carolina, 2Bioengineering, Clemson University, 3Clemson-MUSC Bioengineering Joint Program
A contusion model of severe spinal cord injury is described. Detailed pre-operative, operative and post-operative steps are described to obtain a consistent model.
