Basic advances and new avenues in therapy of spinal cord injury

Annual Review of Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue , 2004, Pages 255-282

  Dobkin, Bruce H ^a   Havton, Leif A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependent plasticity; Functional neuroimaging; Myelopathy; Neural regeneration; Neuroprotection; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOPYRIDINE; ANABOLIC AGENT; BETA 2 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; GANGLIOSIDE GM1; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; N ACETYLGALACTOSAMINE 4 SULFATASE; PROTEIN NOGO;

CELL INTERACTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; DYSAUTONOMIA; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE TRAINING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REHABILITATION MEDICINE; REMYELINIZATION; REVIEW; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; REHABILITATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 1542358946     PISSN: 00664219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.med.55.091902.104338     Document Type: Review

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