Table 2.

Effect of nutrition factors on spinal cord injury therapy

Nutritional factor	Effect	Adjustment	Source
NEG	Promotes neuronal survival, growth, and axonal regeneration	Widely expressed throughout the body, high expression of SCI	First found in mouse sarcomas95,123
BDNF	Axonal growth that promotes neuronal survival	Wide expression throughout the body	First discovered in the pig brain102
NT-3	Promotes the survival of sympathetic and sensory neurons	Widely distributed in the body	Cell gene regulation can be secreted123
CNTF	Promotes neuronal survival, growing, and sprouting	High expression of SCI	First discovered in the ciliary ganglia of chicken embryonic eye tissue110,111
FGF	Inducing angiogenesis at the injury site	Wide expression throughout the body	Secreted by the pituitary and hypothalamus115
GDNF	Maintaining neuronal survival, reduces the production of glial scars	Wide expression of the nervous system	SC secretion117,124

CNTF, ciliary neurotrophic factor; FGF, fibroblast growth factor; GDNF, glial cell-derived neurotrophic factor.