Monitoring Recovery after Injury: Procedures for Deriving the Optimal Test Window

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-118

  Hook, M A ^a   Ferguson, A R ^a   Garcia, G ^a   Washburn, S N ^a   Koehly, L M ^a   Grau, J W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BBB scale; Contusion; Locomotor rating scale; Neural injury; Recovery of function; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2 INHIBITOR; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR AGONIST; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; NERVE GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASSO BEATTIE AND BRESHNAHAN SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NERVE CELL LESION; NONHUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0942279600     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/089771504772695995     Document Type: Article

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