Treadmill training after spinal cord hemisection in mice promotes axonal sprouting and synapse formation and improves motor recovery

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 449-465

  Goldshmit, Yona ^a   Lythgo, Noel ^a   Galea, Mary P ^a   Turnley, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Exercise; Gait analysis; Muscle atrophy; PSD 95; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINE; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; GAIT; GRIP STRENGTH; KINEMATICS; MALE; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONHUMAN; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SYNAPSE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; AXONS; AXOTOMY; GAIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NERVE REGENERATION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPSES;

EID: 43649090254     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2007.0392     Document Type: Article

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