Engineering Novel Spinal Circuits to Promote Recovery after Spinal Injury

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 2090-2101

  Campos, Lucas ^a   Meng, Zhuo ^a   Hu, Guoli ^a   Chiu, David T W ^a   Ambron, Richard T ^a   Martin, John H ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury bypass; Motoneuron; Peripheral nerve; Rat; Regeneration; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACK MUSCLE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LEG MUSCLE; MALE; MOTONEURON; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CHOLINERGIC FIBERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC NERVES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542347203     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5526-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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