Anatomy and Physiology of the Spinal Cord -- Recovery of Function After Spinal Cord Injury -- Recovery of Lost Spinal Cord Function by Facilitating the Spinal Cord Circuits Below the Lesion -- Encouraging Regeneration of Host Neurons: -- Encouraging Regeneration of Host Neurons: -- Replacement of Specific Neuronal Populations in the Spinal Cord -- Replacement of Specific Populations of Cells -- Conclusion. The book gives an account of results obtained from experiments where grafts of neuronal, glial and other tissues as well as artificial materials were placed into the spinal cord. It attempts to evaluate the contributions made by these studies to our understanding of basic neurobiologies questions. These include factors that regulate neuronal growth during development as well as regeneration following injury to the nervous system. The model of neural transplantation is also useful for the study of cell-to-cell interactions, and this applies to interactions between glial cells and neurones, between various populations of neuronal cells and finally between axons and skeletal muscle fibres. The mechanisms involved in the establishment of specific synaptic connections between neurones can also be investigated in this experimental paradigm. Important information regarding this issue was also obtained on systems other than the spinal cord, i. e. the cerebellum, hippocampus and striatum. Although such information of precise connections between the host and the grafted embryonic tissue is still lacking in the spinal cord, there is much information on the response of the host nervous system to the grafted embryonic tissue, and that of the graft to its new host environment. It appears that embryonic grafts are able to induce repair processes following injury to the nervous system.