@article{ref1,
title="Minimum Information About a Spinal Cord Injury Experiment (MIASCI) - a proposed reporting standard for spinal cord injury experiments",
journal="Journal of neurotrauma",
year="2014",
author="Lemmon, Vance P. and Ferguson, Adam R. and Popovich, Phillip G. and Xu, Xiao-Ming and Snow, Diane M. and Igarashi, Michihiro and Beattie, Christine E. and Bixby, John L. and Consortium, Miasci and Abeyruwan, Saminda W. and Beattie, Michael S. and Bethea, John and Bradke, Frank and Bresnahan, Jacqueline C. and Bunge, Mary B. and Callahan, Alison and David, Sam and Dunlop, Sarah Alison and Fawcett, James and Fehlings, Michael G. and Fischer, Itzhak and Giger, Roman J. and Goshima, Yoshio and Grimpe, Barbara and Hagg, Theo and Hall, Edward D. and Harrison, Benjamin J. and Harvey, Alan R. and He, Cheng and He, Zhigang and Hirata, Tatsumi and Hoke, Ahmet and Hulsebosch, Claire E. and Hurtado, Andres and Jain, Anjana and Kadoya, Ken and Kamiguchi, Hiroyuki and Kengaku, Mineko and Kocsis, Jeffery D. and Kwon, Brian K. and Lee, Jae K. and Liebl, Daniel J. and Liu, Shao-Jun and Lowery, Laura A. and Mandrekar-Colucci, Shweta and Martin, John H. and Mason, Carol A. and McTigue, Dana M. and Mokarram, Nassir and Moon, Lawrence D. and Muller, Hans W. and Nakamura, Takeshi and Namba, Takashi and Nishibe, Mariko and Oinuma, Izumi and Oudega, Martin and Pleasure, David E. and Raisman, Geoffrey and Rasband, Matthew N. and Reier, Paul J. and Santiago-Medina, Miguel and Schwab, Jan M. and Schwab, Martin E. and Shinmyo, Yohei and Silver, Jerry and Smith, George M. and So, Kwok-Fai and Sofroniew, Michael V. and Strittmatter, Stephen M. and Tuszynski, Mark H. and Twiss, Jeffery L. and Visser, Ubbo and Watkins, Trent A. and Wu, Wutian and Yoon, Sung Ok and Yuzaki, Michisuke and Zheng, Binhai and Zhou, Fengquan and Zou, Yimin",
volume="31",
number="15",
pages="1354-1361",
abstract="The lack of reproducibility in many areas of experimental science has a number of causes, including a lack of transparency and precision in the description of experimental approaches. This has far-reaching consequences, including wasted resources and slowing of progress. Additionally, the large number of laboratories around the world publishing papers on a given topic make it difficult, if not impossible, for individual researchers to read all of the relevant literature. Consequently, centralized databases are needed to facilitate the generation of new hypotheses for testing. One strategy to improve transparency in experimental description, and to allow the development of frameworks for computer-readable knowledge repositories, is the adoption of uniform reporting standards, such as common data elements (data elements used in multiple clinical studies) and minimum information standards. This paper describes a minimum information standard for spinal cord injury (SCI) experiments, its major elements and the approaches used to develop it. Transparent reporting standards for experiments using animal models of human SCI aim to reduce inherent bias and increase experimental value.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0897-7151",
doi="10.1089/neu.2014.3400",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/neu.2014.3400"
}