Cervical spinal cord injury in the adult rat: Assessment of forelimb dysfunction

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 211-223

  Onifer, Stephen M ^a,b   Rodríguez, José F ^a   Santiago, Deyanira I ^a   Benitez, Juan C ^a   Kim, David T ^a   Brunschwig, Jean Pierre R ^a   Pacheco, Jeffrey T ^a   Perrone, John V ^a   Llorente, Orlando ^a   Hesse, Donald H ^a   Martinez Arizala, Alberto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavior; Grasp; Grip strength; Reach; Retrieval; Staircase Test; Tarlov Scale

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GRIP STRENGTH; LIMB MOVEMENT; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0031429936     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/rnn-1997-11405     Document Type: Article

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