Epidural spinal cord stimulation plus quipazine administration enable stepping in complete spinal adult rats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 98, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 2525-2536

  Gerasimenko, Yury P ^a,c   Ichiyama, Ronaldo M ^a   Lavrov, Igor A ^a   Courtine, Gregoire ^a   Cai, Lance ^a   Zhong, Hui ^a   Roy, Roland R ^a   Edgerton, V Reggie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUIPAZINE; SEROTONIN AGONIST;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; HYPOTHESIS; LOCOMOTION; MONOSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYSYNAPTIC REFLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL NERVE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TREADMILL; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; QUIPAZINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 36248929954     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00836.2007     Document Type: Article

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