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Brain, Vol. 125, No. 9, 2134-2136, September 2002
© 2002 Guarantors of Brain

Book Review

DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN SPINAL CORD

J. A. Eyre and G. J. Clowry

Paediatric Neuroscience, Department of Child Health, The Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN SPINAL CORD
By Joseph Altman and Shirley A. Baker
2001. Oxford: Oxford University Press
Price £140. pp. 556. ISBN 0195144279.

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Spinal cord injury and disease is an important cause of human morbidity. The past 20 years has seen the emergence of many exciting and promising experimental therapeutic strategies to promote repair and regeneration of spinal cord function. The authors of this book propose that treatments to promote recovery of the diseased or injured spinal cord must be based on knowledge of the mechanisms of spinal cord development. The aim of the authors was therefore to present a comprehensive account of the normal course of spinal cord development, based on evidence derived from studies in animals and from observations of human spinal cord material obtained from . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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