Serial recording of somatosensory and myoelectric motor evoked potentials: Role in assessing functional recovery after graded spinal cord injury in the rat

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 151-159

  Nashmi, Raad ^a   Imamura, Hiroyuki ^a   Tator, Charles H ^a   Fehlings, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

functional outcome measures; myoelectric evoked potentials; rat; somatosensory evoked potentials; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INJURY SCALE; MYOELECTRICITY; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 0030949769     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.1997.14.151     Document Type: Article

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