Social and environmental enrichment improves sensory and motor recovery after severe contusive spinal cord injury in the rat

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 24, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1761-1772

  Berrocal, Yerko ^a   Pearse, Damien D ^a   Singh, Amanpreet ^a   Andrade, Christian M ^a   McBroom, Jordan S ^a   Puentes, Rocio ^a   Eaton, Mary J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Growth factors; Locomotor function; Sensory function; Therapeutic approaches for the treatment of CNS; Traumatic spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HYPERALGESIA; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TISSUE PRESERVATION; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CONTUSIONS; FEMALE; HYPERALGESIA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 39449123614     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2007.0327     Document Type: Article

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