Assessing gait impairment following experimental traumatic brain injury in mice

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 34-44

  Neumann, Melanie ^a,b,c   Wang, Yonggang ^a,b,d   Kim, Sharon ^a,b   Hong, Shwuhey M ^a,b   Jeng, Lareine ^a,b,e   Bilgen, Mehmet ^f   Liu, Jialing ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN FRANCISCO VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Watchung Hills Regional High School   (United States)

^f MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catwalk; Controlled cortical impact; Corticospinal tract; Motor function; Neuroplasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOREFOOT; GAIT DISORDER; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; STANDING; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; WALKING SPEED;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 54049130340     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.08.026     Document Type: Article

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