Effects of limb exercise after spinal cord injury on motor neuron dendrite stucture

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 476, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 130-145

  Gazula, Valeswara Rao ^a   Roberts, Melinda ^a   Luzzio, Christopher ^b   Jawad, Abbas F ^c   Kalb, Robert Gordon ^c,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; Locomotion; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; DENDRITIC CELL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; HINDLIMB; LEG MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE SLICE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; DENERVATION; EXTREMITIES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 3242681465     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.20204     Document Type: Article

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