title: SCI-Base: an open-source spinal cord injury animal experimentation database.
abstract: To capture all pertinent data during spinal cord injury animal experimentation, the authors have designed and implemented a database that is available for use under a public license. Their goals were to record all daily medical care of paraplegic animals, including unexpected complications; to store all injury parameters and/or therapeutic procedures; to track locomotor scores and other measures of functional recovery; to allow planning and management of experiments; and to serve as an externally linkable, SQL-queryable data mining source. Ultimately, the use of databases such as this will allow multiple neurotrauma laboratories to compare animal data through web meta-analysis.
authors.affiliation: W.M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Weeks
authors.forename: Ronald P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Hart
mesh_terms: D000822:Animal Husbandry; D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D013119:Spinal Cord Injuries / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy / Q000662:veterinary*