Movements Elicited by Electrical Stimulation of Muscles, Nerves, Intermediate Spinal Cord, and Spinal Roots in Anesthetized and Decerebrate Cats

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Aoyagi, Yoichiro ^a   Mushahwar, Vivian K ^b   Stein, Richard B ^b   Prochazka, Arthur ^b  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Decerebration; Movement; Muscle; Nerve; Spinal cord; Spinal roots; Stimulation

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTRODES; MUSCLE; NEUROLOGY;

SPINAL CORD; SPINAL ROOTS;

PATIENT REHABILITATION;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BODY MOVEMENT; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECEREBRATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE STIMULATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL ROOT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STROKE; VENTRAL ROOT;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMALS; CATS; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; FOOT; MOVEMENT; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 1542409175     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2003.823268     Document Type: Article

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