Rat models of traumatic spinal cord injury to assess motor recovery

ILAR Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 385-395

  Onifer, Stephen M ^a   Rabchevsky, Alexander G ^a   Scheff, Stephen W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression; Contusion; Demyelination; Excitotoxicity; Free radicals; Inflammation; Ischemia; Laceration

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EMOTION; FINANCE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; ANIMAL; FEMALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 36049040405     PISSN: 10842020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ilar.48.4.385     Document Type: Review

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