Effect of spinal cord injury severity on alterations of the H-reflex

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 430-440

  Lee, Jae K ^a   Emch, Gregory S ^a   Johnson, Christopher S ^a   Wrathall, Jean R ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Contusion; Hyperreflexia; MASCIS; Monosynaptic Ia afferent reflex; Motoneuron recruitment; Serotonin; Spasticity; Spontaneous recovery; Transection; White matter

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; HINDLIMB; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MONOSYNAPTIC REFLEX; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RATING SCALE; REACTION TIME; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STIMULUS; WHITE MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEROTONIN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS; STILBAMIDINES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27744519515     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.08.018     Document Type: Article

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