Descending systems contributing to locomotor recovery after mild or moderate spinal cord injury in rats: Experimental evidence and a review of literature

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 189-218

  Basso, D Michele ^a   Beattie, Michael S ^b   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^b  

^a School of Allied Medical Professions   (United States)

^b NONE

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NUCLEUS; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COORDINATION; DEVICE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MOTOR CONTROL; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PONS RETICULAR FORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; RAT; RED NUCLEUS; ROTATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TOE; VESTIBULAR NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT DYES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RED NUCLEUS; RETICULAR FORMATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STILBAMIDINES; VESTIBULAR NUCLEI;

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