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This paper reports a 33-year-old male paraplegic (T6) who fathered a child by artificial insemination following an intrathecal injection of neostigmine. His wife was healthy and pregnancy was achieved after the 10th insemination. She delivered a mature female child weighing 3,100 g in August 1984. To our knowledge this is only the fourth successful case in the world following neostigmine injection.
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Otani, T., Kondo, A. & Takita, T. A paraplegic fathering a child after an intrathecal injection of neostigmine: case report. Spinal Cord 24, 32–37 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1038/sc.1986.6
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