Measuring early pre-symptomatic changes in locomotion of SOD1-G93A rats-A rodent model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 254-262

  Tang, Wenlong ^a   Tasch, Uri ^a   Neerchal, Nagaraj K ^b   Zhu, Liang ^a   Yarowsky, Paul ^c  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; Locomotion; Logistic regression; SOD1 G93A mutants

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MUTATION; PROBABILITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE;

EID: 57649233564     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.08.032     Document Type: Article

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