Wheel-running modestly promotes functional recovery after a unilateral cortical lesion in rats

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 41-49

  Zhao, Xiurong ^a   Aronowski, Jaroslaw ^d   Liu, Shi Jie ^d   Schallert, Timothy ^b   Zhang, Jie ^d   Strong, Roger ^d   Ou, Zhi Shuo ^d   Nguyen, Theresa ^d   Grotta, James C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cerebral ischemia; Cortical lesion; Excitotoxicity; Exercise; NMDA; Recovery; Sensorimotor function; Stroke; Synaptophysin; Wheel running

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RUNNING; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TREADMILL;

EID: 23644449538     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2005/105341     Document Type: Article

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