Watching re-growing neurons inside the spinal cord to directly test treatments for spinal injury

Chronic imaging paperLooking deeply into living spinal cord of an animal over months will allow one to literally watch the efficacy of treatments for spinal cord injury.  It also opens the possibility of watching the  activity of neuronal circuits that generated movement in normal animals and after treatment.

http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v9/n3/abs/nmeth.1856.html

Chronic imaging paper pdf