Prominent role of the spinal central pattern generator in the recovery of locomotion after partial spinal cord injuries

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 3976-3987

  Barrière, Grégory ^a   Leblond, Hugues ^a   Provencher, Janyne ^a   Rossignol, Serge ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cat; Central pattern generator; Locomotion; Plasticity; Spinal cord injury; Treadmill training

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAM; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CENTRAL PATTERN GENERATOR; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINE STABILIZATION; THORACIC SPINE; TREADMILL; WALKING; ANIMAL; LIMB; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINAL CORD; VERTEBRA;

ANIMALS; CATS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 43049170422     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5692-07.2008     Document Type: Article

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