Strain-dependent recovery of spontaneous hindlimb movement in spinal cord transected mice (CD1, C57BL/6, BALB/c)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 826-834

  Lapointe, Nicolas P ^a   Ung, Roth Visal ^a   Bergeron, Maxime ^a   Cote, Martin ^a   Guertin, Pierre A ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

BALB c mice; C57BL 6; CD1; Locomotion; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; HINDLIMB; LEG MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HINDLIMB; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOVEMENT; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747335098     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.120.4.826     Document Type: Article

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