Treadmill Locomotion in the Intact and Spinal Mouse

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 36, 2003, Pages 11411-11419

  Leblond, Hugues ^a   L'Espérance, Marion ^a   Orsal, Didier ^a,b   Rossignol, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Electromyography; Functional recovery; Kinematics; Locomotion; Spinal cord injury; Spinal mouse

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HIP; JOINT MOBILITY; KINEMATICS; KNEE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TREADMILL;

EID: 0346848761     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-36-11411.2003     Document Type: Article

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