Motor performance score: A new algorithm for accurate behavioral testing of spinal cord injury in rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 137, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 242-254

  Von Euler, Mia ^a   Åkesson, Elisabet ^a   Samuelsson, Eva Britt ^a   Seiger, Åke ^a   Sundström, Erik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0029988766     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1996.0023     Document Type: Article

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