Injuries to the CNS lead to severe and often irreversible deficits in sensorimotor and autonomous function. In spinal cord injury (SCI), mechanical damage results in the death of local neurons and glia at the lesion site within minutes to hours. This is followed by a delayed secondary damage phase
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