The onset of hyperreflexia in the rat following complete spinal cord transection

Spinal Cord

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 798-803

  Yates, C ^a,b   Charlesworth, A ^a   Allen, S R ^b   Reese, N B ^b   Skinner, R D ^a   Garcia Rill, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Connexin 36; H reflex; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

CONNEXIN 36;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTION; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; LUMBAR SPINE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINE; TISSUE LEVEL; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CONNEXINS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GAP JUNCTIONS; H-REFLEX; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57349113313     PISSN: 13624393     EISSN: 14765624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2008.49     Document Type: Article

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