Permanent loss of fore-paw grasping requires complete deprivation of afferent input from a minimum of four dorsal roots of the rat brachial plexus

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 215, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 142-145

  Ibrahim, Ahmed G ^a   Raisman, Geoffrey ^a   Li, Ying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climbing; Repair; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DORSAL ROOT; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; FOREFOOT; GRIP STRENGTH; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVE FIBER REGENERATION; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY DEPRIVATION; SENSORY NERVE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRACHIAL PLEXUS; DENERVATION; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; MOVEMENT; NEUROFILAMENT PROTEINS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 57449113584     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.09.023     Document Type: Article

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