SCI Regeneration MapWhat the world knows about repairing the injured spinal cord

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A subject this map covers

Axon growth and regeneration

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What belongs here

Attempts to make cut or spared fibres grow and form new connections.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

Strengthening existing synapses by training is rehabilitation and plasticity.

What has been looked at

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  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 1635 records · 1949–2026
  • Indexed as work in animals: 2959 records · 1963–2026
  • Indexed as laboratory work: 355 records · 1981–2026
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 307 records · 1961–2026

    Published in this map

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    Found in the scientific sources, not yet checked

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    5256 records

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    The source has not said who or what was studied

    Where this was looked for, and when

    The latest collection walk and the accumulated shelf have different scopes. A zero applies only to that source query and its date window; older records may remain on the shelf. It does not mean no research exists.

    ClinicalTrials.govlatest collection walk returned no recordsasked on 2026-09-29
    Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-09-29
    		matched in this collection walk 0 · accumulated records across collection walks 2 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
    Crossrefasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-16
    Collection window: all dates before the end date – 2026-09-16
    		matched in this collection walk 989929 · accumulated records across collection walks 49aim: a sample of the most relevant records. This source ranks a bag of words, so its own total is the size of the corpus that shares some of them, never a set still owed.
    PubMedasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-10-05
    Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-10-05
    		matched in this collection walk 7 · accumulated records across collection walks 5355 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
    The question asked
    • ClinicalTrials.gov("axon regeneration" OR "axonal sprouting" OR "axon growth")
    • Crossrefspinal cord injury axon regeneration axonal sprouting
    • PubMed("Spinal Cord Injuries"[MeSH Terms] OR "spinal cord injury"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord injuries"[Title/Abstract] OR "spinal cord trauma"[Title/Abstract]) AND ("Nerve Regeneration"[MeSH Terms] OR "Axons"[MeSH Terms] OR "axon regeneration"[Title/Abstract] OR "axonal sprouting"[Title/Abstract] OR "axon growth"[Title/Abstract])

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