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Short-circuit recovery from spinal injury

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Propriospinal neurons, whose axons never leave the spinal cord, aid in recovery after spinal cord injury—even when all axons from the brain have been damaged (pages 69–74).

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Figure 1: Courtine et al.2 cut all long-tract axons descending from the brain (SSC) using opposite-side staggered lateral hemisections of the mouse spinal cord at the T7 and T12 segments.

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  1. Dennis J. Stelzner is in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA. stelzned@upstate.edu,

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