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The book gives an account of results obtained from experiments where grafts of neuronal, glial and other tissues as well as artificial materials were placed into the spinal cord. It attempts to evaluate the contributions made by these studies to our understanding of basic neurobiologies questions. These include factors that regulate neuronal growth during development as well as regenera­tion following injury to the nervous system. The model of neural transplanta­tion is also useful for the study of cell-to-cell interactions, and this applies to interactions between glial cells and neurones, between various populations of neuronal cells and finally between axons and skeletal muscle fibres. The mecha­nisms involved in the establishment of specific synaptic connections between neurones can also be investigated in this experimental paradigm. Important in­ formation regarding this issue was also obtained on systems other than the spinal cord, i. e. the cerebellum, hippocampus and striatum. Although such in­ formation of precise connections between the host and the grafted embryonic tissue is still lacking in the spinal cord, there is much information on the response of the host nervous system to the grafted embryonic tissue, and that of the graft to its new host environment. It appears that embryonic grafts are able to induce repair processes follow­ing injury to the nervous system.

Nerve Tissue --- Spinal Cord Injuries --- Nerve Regeneration --- Fetal nerve tissue --- Spinal cord --- Moelle épinière --- transplantation --- surgery --- Transplantation --- Regeneration --- Régénération --- Fetal nerve tissue -- Transplantation. --- Nerve tissue -- Transplantation. --- Spinal cord -- Regeneration. --- Spinal cord injuries -- Surgery. --- Nervous System --- Trauma, Nervous System --- Surgical Procedures, Operative --- Nervous System Physiological Processes --- Spinal Cord Diseases --- Wounds and Injuries --- Tissues --- Anatomy --- Nervous System Diseases --- Central Nervous System Diseases --- Diseases --- Biological Processes --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena --- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena --- Biological Phenomena --- Phenomena and Processes --- Transplantation of Organs & Tissues --- Neurology --- Medicine --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Transplantation. --- Regeneration. --- Medicine. --- Neurosciences. --- Neurology. --- Surgical transplantation. --- Neurobiology. --- Biomedicine. --- Transplant Surgery. --- Fetal tissues --- Nerve tissue --- Transplantation of organs, tissu. --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Medical transplantation --- Organ transplantation --- Organ transplants --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Surgical transplantation --- Tissue transplantation --- Transplants, Organ --- Surgery --- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. --- Neural sciences --- Neurological sciences --- Neuroscience --- Medical sciences --- Nervous system --- Neuropsychiatry --- Neurosciences --- Transplant surgery --- Transplantation surgery --- Neurology .