Different forms of impairment of the fore-hindlimb coordination after partial spinal lesions in cats

Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 177-188

  Górska, Teresa ^a   Bem, Tiaza ^b   Majczyński, Henryk ^a   Zmysłowski, Wojciech ^b  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

cat; fore hindlimb coordination; locomotion; spinal lesion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR COORDINATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD LESION;

ANIMALS; CATS; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MOVEMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 0029918699     PISSN: 00651400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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