Overground locomotion after incomplete spinal lesions in the rat: Quantitative gait analysis

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1198-1218

  Górska, Teresa ^a   Chojnicka Gittins, Barbara ^a   Majczyński, Henryk ^a   Zmysłowski, Wojciech ^b  

^a NENCKI INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOCYBERNETICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING   (Poland)

Author keywords

Adult rat; Incomplete spinal lesions; Overground locomotion

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAIT; HINDLIMB; INJURY SEVERITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDING; VELOCITY;

ANIMALS; DENERVATION; ELECTRODES; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; EXTREMITIES; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 34547103980     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2006.0219     Document Type: Article

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