Cracking the black box - and putting it back together again: Animal models of spinal cord injury

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Models

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 341-347

  Brösamle, Christian ^a   Huber, Andrea B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAST BLUE; FLUOROGOLD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; GENE THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 33846686501     PISSN: 17406757     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmod.2006.11.006     Document Type: Review

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