Red nucleus lesions impair overground locomotion in rats: A kinetic analysis

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 1113-1122

  Muir, Gillian D ^a   Whishaw, Ian Q ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Excitotoxic lesion; Gait; Ground reaction forces; Kinetic; Mechanical energy; Potential

Indexed keywords

EXCITOTOXIN; IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDER; INTOXICATION; KINETICS; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RED NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RED NUCLEUS;

EID: 0034124252     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2000.00987.x     Document Type: Article

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