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Be careful what you train for

Nature Neuroscience volume 12, pages 1077–1079 (2009)Cite this article

No effective therapeutic interventions exist for severe spinal cord injury. A report in this issue shows that rats can recover substantial 'hand' function after complete lesion of the cervical dorsal corticospinal tract, if treated with a combination of specific reaching rehabilitation exercises and chondroitinase injections to enhance axonal sprouting.

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Figure 1: Model of ChABC-induced plasticity after partial spinal cord injury.

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  1. Wolfram Tetzlaff and Brian Kwon are at the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD), University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. tetzlaff@icord.org,

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  2. Brian Kwon is also affiliated with the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of British Columbia.,

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  3. Karim Fouad is at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.,

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