Comparing deficits following excitotoxic and contusion injuries in the thoracic and lumbar spinal cord of the adult rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 156, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 191-204

  Magnuson, David S K ^a   Trinder, Tammy C ^a   Zhang, Y Ping ^a   Burke, Darlene ^a   Morassutti, Dante J ^a   Shields, Christopher B ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

BBB locomotor scale; Excitotoxicity; Kainic acid; Motor evoked potentials; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; KAINIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; GRAY MATTER; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

EID: 0033061941     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1999.7016     Document Type: Article

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