Complete compensation in skilled reaching success with associated impairments in limb synergies, after dorsal column lesion in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1885-1894

  McKenna, John E ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dorsal column; Food handling; Forelimb; Injury; Lesion; Rat; Reaching; Recovery of function; Skilled movement; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ROTATION; SPINAL CORD LESION;

EID: 0033103347     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-05-01885.1999     Document Type: Article

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