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Originally Posted by Jake
I don't see how that can possibly work. Basically all the surgeon can do is sow together the nerves and spinal cord, and hope the axons will regrow to where they are supposed to go. Plus, when you severe a nerve body from it's axon, the axon dies... since nerve bodies are all over the place (the brain, spinal cord, various ganglia outside of the spinal cord) it seems to me that you would just end up with a lot degrading axons (going in every direction) and a lot of neural connections that will never go back to where they are supposed to go.
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I really don't think you can sever the spinal cord and then glue it back together, wouldn't it be like trying to fix a broken electrical cord by jamming the cable together and taping it and hoping that the wiring grows together properly?
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