Effect of acute spinal cord injury on axonal counts in the pyramidal tract of rats.

@article{Tator1984EffectOA,
  title={Effect of acute spinal cord injury on axonal counts in the pyramidal tract of rats.},
  author={Charles Tator and Andrea Rivlin and Andrew J Lewis and Birgit Schmoll},
  journal={Journal of neurosurgery},
  year={1984},
  volume={61 1},
  pages={
          118-23
        }
}
The concentration of axons in the pyramidal tract of normal and spinal cord-injured rats was determined by counting axons in sections of spinal cord stained by the Holmes technique. In the normal rat the axon concentration was uniform in the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar regions, although the size of the tract diminished progressively with its descent in the cord. After acute cord transection or compression injury, the axon concentration distal to the injury site diminished markedly. However… 
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