Development of an International Canine Spinal Cord Injury observational registry: a collaborative data-sharing network to optimize translational studies of SCI.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Prospective cross-sectional cohort study.

Objectives

The canine spontaneous model of spinal cord injury (SCI) is as an important pre-clinical platform as it recapitulates key facets of human injury in a naturally occurring context. The establishment of an observational canine SCI registry constitutes a key step in performing epidemiologic studies and assessing the impact of therapeutic strategies to enhance translational research. Further, accumulating information on dogs with SCI may contribute to current "big data" approaches to enhance understanding of the disease using heterogeneous multi-institutional, multi-species datasets from both pre-clinical and human studies.

Setting

Multiple veterinary academic institutions across the United States and Europe

SUBMITTER: Moore SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6035082 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature