Spinal Cord Monitoring

• Section I: Spinal cord blood flow, neurochemistry and sensory function.- 1.Spinal cord blood flow and metabolism in transient spinal ischemia.- 2.Calcium binding proteins in the spinal cord: physiological significance.- 3.Substance P Transmitter or regulator in spinal sensory mechanisms?.- 4.The role of glycine in pain and spasticity.- 5.Prostaglandin system in the pathophysiology of the spinal cord. A neuroanatomical study.- Section II: Spinal cord regeneration and repair.- 6.Neurotrophic factors and CNS regeneration.- 7.Regeneration in the axotomised cord: influence of cyclosporin A and neonatal immune desensitization in mammals.- 8.Neurotrophic factors attenuate neuronal nitric oxide synthase upregulation, microvascular permeability disturbances, edema formation and cell injury in the spinal cord following trauma.- Section III: Spinal cord electrophysiology: methods and various techniques.- 9.A Cerebellar evoked potential for spinal cord monitoring.- 10.Generation of magnetic evoked spinal cord potentials.- 11.Magnetic stimulation of spinal nerve roots and cortical somatosensory evoked potentials.- 12.A combination of microdialysis, electrophysiology and histology for exploring secondary damage upon spinal cord injury.- Section IV: Spinal cord evoked potentials: pathophysioiogy and pharmacological aspects.- 13.Spinal cord bioelectrical activity, edema and cell injury following a focal trauma to the rat spinal cord.- 14.Spinal cord blood flow and evoked potentials as outcome measures for experimental spinal cord injury.- Section V: Spinal cord monitoring in clinic: pathology and diseases processes.- 15.White matter changes in human spinal cord injury.- 16.Motor control in human spinal cord injury.- 17.Intraoperative neurophysiology of the corticospinal tract.- 18.Corticospinal volleys evoked by transcranial electrical and magnetic stimulation.- Section VI: Spinal cord monitoring in clinic: pharmacology, therapy and outcome measures.- 19.Novel approaches to the treatment of post compressive spinal cord injury.- 20.The multicentre outcome survey of spinal cord monitoring: monitoring reduces neurologic deficits.- 21.Effect of anaesthetics on somatosensory and motor evoked potentials in humans.- 22.Intraoperative spinal cord monitoring: clinical overview.- Author index.

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