Hindlimb stepping movements in complete spinal rats induced by epidural spinal cord stimulation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 383, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 339-344

  Ichiyama, R M ^a   Gerasimenko, Yu P ^a,b   Zhong, H ^a   Roy, R R ^a   Edgerton, V R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Epidural electrical stimulation; Locomotion; Rats; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE TWITCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HINDLIMB; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 20444402656     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2005.04.049     Document Type: Article

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