Age but not sex affects motor recovery after unilateral sensorimotor cortex suction-ablation in the rat

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-43

  Goldstein, Larry B ^a,b,c   Bullman, Sarah ^a  

^a Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Cortex; Motor function; Rat; Recovery; Sex; Stroke; Trauma

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STROKE; WALKING;

EID: 0032881837     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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