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

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A subject this map covers

Cell therapy

A list of codes kept in this browser. No name, no medical answer and no account — nothing personal is stored and nothing is registered.

What belongs here

Any delivery of living cells to the injured cord, cerebrospinal fluid or bloodstream intended to affect recovery.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

Cell-free products (vesicles, conditioned medium) are a separate concept. Cells used only as an in-vitro model are laboratory work, not a therapy.

What has been looked at

Counted from what the sources catalogue, not from reading the work. It says how much exists and over what span of years — never what any of it found.

  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 2067 records · 1963–2028
  • Indexed as work in animals: 1280 records · 1974–2026
  • Indexed as laboratory work: 276 records · 2000–2026
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 735 records · 2000–2026

    Published in this map

    Catalogue records matching this subject. Publication here does not establish human review, measured results or effectiveness. Open a record to inspect its sources and evidence.

    Found in the scientific sources, not yet checked

    Titles and identifiers as the sources publish them. Nobody here has read these papers, and nothing on this shelf is a result, a recommendation or evidence that anything works. Each line opens the original.

    4358 records

    This grouping is the source's own cataloguing, not a reading of the paper. It says where a record was filed, not what it found.

    Indexed as laboratory work

    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 76 · 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 5448204 · accumulated records across collection walks 50aim: 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 2026-10-12
    Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-10-12
    		matched in this collection walk 11 · accumulated records across collection walks 4374 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
    The question asked
    • ClinicalTrials.gov("cell transplantation" OR "cell therapy" OR "stem cell")
    • Crossrefspinal cord injury cell transplantation cell therapy
    • 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 ("Cell- and Tissue-Based Therapy"[MeSH Terms] OR "Stem Cell Transplantation"[MeSH Terms] OR "cell transplantation"[Title/Abstract] OR "cell therapy"[Title/Abstract] OR "stem cell"[Title/Abstract])

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