Usefulness of the tail-flick reflex in the prognosis of functional recovery in paraplegic rats

Surgical Neurology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 323-325

  Rahimi Movaghar, Vafa ^a,b   Yazdi, Atefeh ^b   Mohammadi, Mehdi ^b  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ZAHEDAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Motor activity; Rats; Reflex; Spinal cord injuries

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TAIL FLICK TEST;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOCICEPTORS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PARAPLEGIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REFLEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 48549099467     PISSN: 00903019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surneu.2007.05.056     Document Type: Article

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