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Glial scar and its remodelling

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

The tissue that forms around the lesion, and attempts to change it — soften, remodel or use it.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

Skin or soft-tissue scarring after surgery does not belong here.

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: 478 records · 1963–2026
  • Indexed as work in animals: 879 records · 1969–2026
  • Indexed as laboratory work: 59 records · 1992–2026
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 294 records · 1983–2026

    Checked

    Records a person has read against the original and published into this map. These carry measurements, evidence states and a place on the ladder.

    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.

    1710 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.

    Registered or indexed as work in people

    Indexed as work in animals

    Where this was looked for, and when

    The exact question each source was asked, the day it was asked, and what came back. A zero on this page is only honest if these are on it.

    ClinicalTrials.govasked, and it has nothingasked on 2026-09-29the source found 0 · this programme has 4 · still to fetch 0aim: every record matching this question
    Crossrefasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-16the source found 851162 · this programme has 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 2026-10-12the source found 7 · this programme has 1725 · still to fetch 0aim: every record matching this question
    The question asked
    • ClinicalTrials.gov("glial scar" OR "astrogliosis" OR "fibrotic scar")
    • Crossrefspinal cord injury glial scar astrogliosis
    • 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 ("Gliosis"[MeSH Terms] OR "Cicatrix"[MeSH Terms] OR "glial scar"[Title/Abstract] OR "astrogliosis"[Title/Abstract] OR "fibrotic scar"[Title/Abstract])

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