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. 2015 Jan;10(1):104–111. doi: 10.4103/1673-5374.150715

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Spinal cord cavity at the injury site 8 weeks after spinal cord injury (hematoxylin-eosin staining, optical microscopy, × 100).

(A) Injury group; (B) BCT group; (C) BCT + BMSC group. Eight weeks after surgery, there was noticeably less scarring at the injury site than after 1 week. The BCT group (B) and BCT + BMSC group (C) had smaller cavities than the injury group (A). Hyperplastic tissue was noted in the BCT + BMSC group (C). BCT: Biological chitin tube; BMSC: bone marrow mesenchymal stem cell.