<p class="jove_content">Respiratory failure is the leading cause of death following a cervical spinal cord injury. Having a reproducible, quantifiable, and reliable pre-clinical animal model of respiratory failure induced by a partial cervical injury will help to understand the subsequent respiratory and non-respiratory neuroplasticity and allow testing putative repair strategies.</p>

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A Murine Model of Cervical Spinal Cord Injury to Study Post-lesional Respiratory Neuroplasticity

A cervical spinal cord injury induces permanent paralysis, and often leads to respiratory distress. To date, no efficient therapeutics have been developed ...

UFR des sciences de la santé - Simone Veil

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Explorations Fonctionnelles

Réanimation Médicale et Centre d'Investigation Clinique et d'Innovation Technologique (Unité Inserm 805)

Services de Physiologie, Explorations Fonctionnelles, Réanimation Médicale et Centre d'Investigation Clinique et d'Innovation Technologique (Unité Inserm 805)

Institution - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

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