Mechanical Properties of Cervical Spinal Cord in Neonatal Piglet: In Vitro

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Purpose and Significance of Study: The authors attempted to determine the response of neonatal spinal cord tissue to tensile loading in pigs. The results may help us understand neonatal spinal cord injury mechanisms better and develop injury prevention strategies, thus protecting neonates from often significant long-term deficits.

Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of very high interest for the journal Neurology and Neurobiology.

The manuscript contains just a few minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof, except the highlighted one which requires the author’s attention), which are listed below –

 

The common ones are –

·       Omission of “the”, e.g., before “biomechanical” and “spinal” in the last sentence of the Abstract, before “validity” in the last sentence of the 1^st paragraph of the Introduction, and so on.

·       Omission or overuse of “,”, e.g., overuse after “injuries” and “delivery” in the 1^st sentence of the 1^st paragraph of the Introduction, after “i.e.”, “e.g.”, and so on.

The others are –

In the Abstract –

·       In the last sentence, “better” must instead be placed after “mechanisms”.

In the Introduction –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “occurs” must be replaced with “occur”, and “results” must be replaced with “result”.

·       In the 3^rd sentence, “human” must be replaced with “humans”.

In the Methods and Materials –

  Under Camera System Setup –

·       In the 1^st sentence, “(” before “Basler acA640-120uc camera” must be replaced with “,”.

In the Discussion –

  In the 1^st paragraph –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “human” must be replaced with “humans”.

  In the 2^nd paragraph –

·       In the 2^nd sentence, “biofidelic” must be rephrased as there is no such word.

Author Info

Anita Singh Rachel Magee Sriram Balasubramanian

Corresponding Author

Anita Singh
Widener University, School of Engineering, Chester, Pennsylvania, USA

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Thu 07, May 2020
Accepted: Fri 22, May 2020
Published: Thu 28, May 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Anita Singh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.NNB.2020.02.08