Stereotactic radiosurgery improves locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury in rats

Neurosurgery

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 981-987

  Zeman, Richard J ^a,b   Wen, Xialing ^a   Ouyang, Nengtai ^a   Rocchio, Ronald ^a   Shih, Lynn ^a   Alfieri, Alan ^a   Moorthy, Chitti ^a   Etlinger, Joseph D ^a,b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MotoGen Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Cavitation; Contusion; Locomotor recovery; Spinal cord injury; Stereotactic radiosurgery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; JOINT MOBILITY; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY; X IRRADIATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RADIOSURGERY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; X-RAYS;

EID: 57649128453     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000330404.37092.3E     Document Type: Article

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