Facilitation of stepping with epidural stimulation in spinal rats: Role of sensory input

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 31, 2008, Pages 7774-7780

  Lavrov, Igor ^a   Courtine, Grégoire ^c   Dy, Christine J ^a   Van Den Brand, Rubia ^c   Fong, Andy J ^d   Gerasimenko, Yuri ^a,e   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 UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e PAVLOV INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

CPG; Deafferentation; Spinal cord; Spinal cord injury; Spinal cord stimulation; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

QUIPAZINE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; EPIDURAL ELECTROSTIMULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LATENT PERIOD; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; LUMBOSACRAL SPINE; MONOSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SENSORY NERVE; SENSORY NERVE CONDUCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TREADMILL; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EPIDURAL SPACE; INNERVATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE CELL; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VERTEBRA; WALKING;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EPIDURAL SPACE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS, AFFERENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; WALKING;

EID: 50349089174     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1069-08.2008     Document Type: Article

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