Voluntary running attenuates age-related deficits following SCI

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 210, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 207-216

  Siegenthaler, Monica M ^a   Berchtold, Nicole C ^b   Cotman, Carl W ^b   Keirstead, Hans S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Demyelination; Remyelination; Spinal cord injury; Voluntary exercise

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; DEMYELINATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXERCISE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VOLUNTARY MOVEMENT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RUNNING; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 39549111895     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2007.10.019     Document Type: Article

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