Cycling Exercise and Fetal Spinal Cord Transplantation Act Synergistically on Atrophied Muscle following Chronic Spinal Cord Injury in Rats

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 85-91

  Peterson, Charlotte A ^a,b   Murphy, René J l ^a,c   Dupont Versteegden, Esther E ^a,b   Houlé, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b CENTRAL ARKANSAS VETERANS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrophy; Exercise; Myosin heavy chain; Neurotransplantation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

MYOSIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; KINESIOTHERAPY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NERVE TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; HINDLIMB; MOTION; MUSCLE FIBERS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; MUSCULOSKELETAL MANIPULATIONS; MYOSIN HEAVY CHAINS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033817622     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154596830001400201     Document Type: Article

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