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Calibrated Forceps Model of Spinal Cord Compression Injury

Ashley McDonough^*1,2, Angela Monterrubio^*1,2, Jeanelle Ariza^1,2, Verónica Martínez-Cerdeño^1,2

¹Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of California, Davis, ²Institute for Pediatric Regenerative Medicine, Shriners Hospitals for Children (Northern California)

Spinal cord injury models should be highly reproducible. We demonstrate that the calibrated forceps compression model of spinal cord injury is an easy to use surgical method for generating reproducible injuries to the murine spinal cord.