Effects of exercise and fetal spinal cord implants on the H-reflex in chronically spinalized adult rats

Brain Research

Volumn 729, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-131

  Skinner, R D ^a   Houle, J D ^a   Reese, N B ^b   Berry, C L ^a   Garcia Rill, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Fetal spinal cord implant; H reflex; Hyperreflexia; Rat; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FETUS; HOFFMANN REFLEX; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

EID: 0030570814     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0006-8993(96)00556-2     Document Type: Article

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