Sensorimotor behaviour following incomplete cervical spinal cord injury in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 165, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 147-159

  Webb, Aubrey A ^a   Muir, Gillian D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Locomotion; Reaching; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CELL; FORELIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOTONEURON; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSATION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SENSORY SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACIC SPINE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT; NECK INJURIES; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 27644433447     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.07.025     Document Type: Review

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