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

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A subject this map covers

Arm and hand function

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What belongs here

Restoring arm and hand movement after cervical injury, nerve and tendon transfer included.

What does not belong here, however close it looks

General independence scales with no separate arm measure do not belong here.

What has been looked at

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  • Registered or indexed as work in people: 3912 records · 1960–2027
  • Indexed as work in animals: 118 records · 1974–2026
  • The source has not said who or what was studied: 191 records · 1968–2026

    Published in this map

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    • Intrathecal administration of a soluble Nogo receptor decoy protein does not improve upper extremity motor strength or hand prehension function after spinal cord injury.

    Found in the scientific sources, not yet checked

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    4221 records

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    Registered or indexed as work in people

    Indexed as work in animals

    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.govasked, and it answeredasked on 2026-09-29
    Collection window: 2026-09-16 – 2026-09-29
    		matched in this collection walk 6 · accumulated records across collection walks 163 · 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 2348488 · 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 2026-10-12
    Collection window: 2026-09-17 – 2026-10-12
    		matched in this collection walk 3 · accumulated records across collection walks 4064 · still to fetch in this walk 0aim: every record matching this question
    The question asked
    • ClinicalTrials.gov("upper limb function" OR "hand function" OR "nerve transfer")
    • Crossrefspinal cord injury upper limb function hand function
    • 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 ("Hand"[MeSH Terms] OR "Quadriplegia"[MeSH Terms] OR "upper limb function"[Title/Abstract] OR "hand function"[Title/Abstract] OR "nerve transfer"[Title/Abstract])

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