Performance of locomotion and foot grasping following a unilateral thoracic corticospinal tract lesion in monkeys (Macaca mulatta)

Brain

Volumn 128, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2338-2358

  Courtine, Grégoire ^a   Roy, Roland R ^a   Raven, Joseph ^a   Hodgson, John ^a   Mckay, Heather ^c   Yang, Hong ^d   Zhong, Hui ^a   Tuszynski, Mark H ^d,e   Edgerton, V Reggie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal pathways; Foot grasping; Locomotion; Monkey; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FOOT; FORELIMB; GAIT; HINDLIMB; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; PAW EDEMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD LESION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREADMILL;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FOOT; FORELIMB; GAIT; HINDLIMB; LOCOMOTION; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 26044476588     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh604     Document Type: Article

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