Treadmill training in incomplete spinal cord injured rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 107-113

  Fouad, Karim ^a,b   Metz, Gerlinde A S ^a   Merkler, Doron ^a   Dietz, Volker ^b   Schwab, Martin E ^a  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Recovery; Spinal cord injury; Spinal pattern generator; Treadmill training

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WALKING;

EID: 0033826203     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(00)00244-8     Document Type: Article

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