Recovery of forepaw gripping ability and reorganization of cortical motor control following cervical spinal cord injuries in mice

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 333-348

  Blanco, Jennifer E ^a   Anderson, Kim D ^a   Steward, Oswald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticospinal tract; Digital flexors; Functional reorganization; Hand function; Hemisection; Mouse; Plasticity; Recovery of function; Sensorimotor cortex; Spinal cord injury; Upper extremity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX LESION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREFOOT; GRIP STRENGTH; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MOTOR CONTROL; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; BIOTIN; BRAIN; DEXTRANS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HAND STRENGTH; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RHODAMINES; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 33846498051     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2006.08.017     Document Type: Article

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