Effects of Sacrocaudal Spinal Cord Transection and Transplantation of Fetal Spinal Tissue on Withdrawal Reflexes of the Tail

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 331-343

  Friedman, Robert M ^a   Ritz, Louis A ^a   Reier, Paul J ^a   Vierck, Charles J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous reflexes; Fetal transplantation; Segmental reflexes; Spastic syndrome; Spinal cord injury; Spinal transection

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSPORIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; LATENT PERIOD; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; SKIN STIMULATION; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TAIL; WITHDRAWAL REFLEX;

ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FETAL TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; TAIL;

EID: 0034439078     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/154596830001400409     Document Type: Article

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