sci cadavers

[lurch]

The other day I was reading an atlas of human anatomy that featured photographs of actual human cadavers that had been disected.
As I often wonder what the site of my injury actually looks like I was wondering if any any scis had donated their bodies to science thus giving the researchers the opportunity to have a close look at what the bodies reaction is long term to the injury ( scar tissue etc).Or has new medical imaging technology made this sort of thing redundant?

[Wise Young]

The other day I was reading an atlas of human anatomy that featured photographs of actual human cadavers that had been disected.
As I often wonder what the site of my injury actually looks like I was wondering if any any scis had donated their bodies to science thus giving the researchers the opportunity to have a close look at what the bodies reaction is long term to the injury ( scar tissue etc).Or has new medical imaging technology made this sort of thing redundant?

Lurch,

Perth in Australia is famous for its huge collection of injured human spinal cords. Professor Byron Kakulas at the Royal Perth Hospital is responsible for this collection. He is head of the Neuropathology unit http://www.mdawa.asn.au/researchgroups.php and continues to publish on the subject, i.e. Neurosurgery Online (http://www.neurosurgery-online.com/pt/re/neurosurg/abstract.00006123-200609000-00020.htm;jsessionid=FSLWtnvvPQqmvPpw3hnq8kTrfnl56 zXKb8cYDpbJZJVmnvpZT2py!2089961419!-949856144!8091!-1).

Wise.

[SCI-Nurse]

Mark Tuszynski (http://tuszynskilab.ucsd.edu/) at UCSD has accepted donations of spinal cords from a number of our veterans who died, and uses them in his lab to study the long term effects of spinal cord injury and disease on the cord at the cellular level. I am not sure he accepts donations from out of the area, as he generally does the dissection himself. The rest of the body can be prepared for burial (even open casket) without a problem.

(KLD)

[Juke_spin]

Lurch,

Perth in Australia is famous for its huge collection of injured human spinal cords. Professor Byron Kakulas at the Royal Perth Hospital is responsible for this collection. He is head of the Neuropathology unit http://www.mdawa.asn.au/researchgroups.php and continues to publish on the subject, i.e. Neurosurgery Online (http://www.neurosurgery-online.com/pt/re/neurosurg/abstract.00006123-200609000-00020.htm;jsessionid=FSLWtnvvPQqmvPpw3hnq8kTrfnl56 zXKb8cYDpbJZJVmnvpZT2py%212089961419%21-949856144%218091%21-1).

Wise.
Remind me never to be critically ill and admitted to this establishment when Prof. Kakulas is on duty.:nono::zombie::p