Hindlimb loading determines stepping quantity and quality following spinal cord transection

Brain Research

Volumn 1050, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 180-189

  Timoszyk, Wojciech K ^a   Nessler, Jeff A ^a   Acosta, Cynthia ^b   Roy, Roland R ^c   Edgerton, V Reggie ^c   Reinkensmeyer, David J ^a   De Leon, Ray ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Motor control; Pattern generation; Sensory information; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HINDLIMB; JOINT FUNCTION; LOCOMOTION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RATING SCALE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TRAINING; WEIGHT BEARING;

NON-PROGRAMMATIC;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); GAIT; HINDLIMB; MOTOR NEURONS; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; ROBOTICS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 21544456396     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.05.041     Document Type: Article

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