Dose dependence of the 5-HT agonist quipazine in facilitating spinal stepping in the rat with epidural stimulation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 438, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 281-285

  Ichiyama, Ronaldo M ^a,e   Gerasimenko, Yury ^a,c   Jindrich, Devin L ^d   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)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidural electrical stimulation; Locomotion; Rats; Serotonin; Spinal cord

Indexed keywords

QUIPAZINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; ELECTRODE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; TREADMILL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; LOWER EXTREMITY; LUMBOSACRAL REGION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; QUIPAZINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN AGONISTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 44349091451     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.04.080     Document Type: Article

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