Locomotor behavior of bonnet macaques after spinal cord injury

Motor Control

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 71-85

  Babu, Rangasamy Suresh ^a   Periasamy, P ^b   Varadamurthy, S ^c   Sethuraman, O S ^c   Namasivayam, A ^c  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Government Vellore Medical College and Hospital   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS   (India)

Author keywords

Locomotor behavior grading technique; Primate bipedal locomotion; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MACACA; MOTOR CONTROL; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEMIPLEGIA; KINESTHESIS; MACACA RADIATA; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NERVE REGENERATION; ORIENTATION; POSTURE; REACTION TIME; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 33846338224     PISSN: 10871640     EISSN: 15432696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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