Abstract: For the reasons that the genesis and development of human being’s diseases are complicated, and many medical researches are not permitted to be applied on human bodies, the kinds of animal models, which are replicable for human diseases, are playing a more and more indispensable role in medical research. The mechanism of spinal cord injury and regeneration is a difficult problem in current neuroscience research. However, the construction and development of the animal model for spinal cord injury provides a powerful support for breakthrough. This review aims at introduce how to choose animals, the means of constructing each kind of spinal cord injury model, the characteristic and the application of each kind of spinal cord injury model.

Key words: Animal model, Spinal cord injury