The effects of long-standing limb loss on anatomical reorganization of the somatosensory afferents in the brainstem and spinal cord

Somatosensory and Motor Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 153-163

  Wu, Carolyn W H ^a   Kaas, Jon H ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amputation; Phantom limb; Primates; Sprouting

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUNEATE NUCLEUS; LIMB AMPUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY NERVE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; AMPUTATION; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; CEBIDAE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LIMB; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PATHOLOGY; PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSIMIAN; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPINAL CORD;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; AMPUTATION; ANIMAL; ATROPHY; BRAIN STEM; CHOLERA TOXIN; EXTREMITIES; GALAGO; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; NEURONS, AFFERENT; PERFUSION; SAIMIRI; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; ANIMALS;

CHOLERA TOXIN;

EID: 0035986231     PISSN: 08990220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08990220220133261     Document Type: Article

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