Quantitative assessment of neurologic deficits in a chronic progressive murine model of CNS demyelination

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 158, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 171-181

  McGavern, Dorian B ^a   Zoecklein, Laurie ^a   Drescher, Kristen M ^a   Rodriguez, Moses ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Footprints; Multiple sclerosis; Neural; Rotarod; Spontaneous activity; Theiler's virus

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMYELINATION; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MURINE ENCEPHALOMYELITIS VIRUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0032868603     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7082     Document Type: Article

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