Two chronic motor training paradigms differentially influence acute instrumental learning in spinally transected rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 95-101

  Bigbee, Allison J ^a   Crown, Eric D ^d   Ferguson, Adam R ^c   Roy, Roland R ^b   Tillakaratne, Niranjala J K ^b   Grau, James W ^c   Edgerton, V Reggie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Activity dependence; Asymmetry; Locomotion; Motor learning; Posture; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TRAINING; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 34247526814     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.02.029     Document Type: Article

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