Book Review: Atlas of the Spinal Cord of the Rat, Mouse, Marmoset, Rhesus and Human by Gulgun Sengul, Charles Watson, Ikuko Tanaka and George Paxinos

Many hundreds of thousands suffer spinal cord injuries leading to loss of sensation and motor function in the body below the injury site.Regeneration studies in the spinal cord and spinal cord degenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) have increasingly been on the forefront of biomedical research in the past years throughout many laboratories world-wide.Although there have been some significant strides towards new treatment methods and research on the involvement of the spinal cord in pain and the ability of spinal cord to regenerate, there is yet no cure for these overwhelming spinal cord diseases.Mammalian spinal cord research requires reliable atlases to correctly plan and interpret spinal cord studies by knowing the detailed anatomy, and to localize anatomical structures in radiological imaging and gene expression studies.