Advantages of delaying the onset of rehabilitative reaching training in rats with incomplete spinal cord injury

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 641-651

  Krajacic, Aleksandra ^a   Ghosh, Mousumi ^b   Puentes, Rocio ^b   Pearse, Damien D ^a,b   Fouad, Karim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed training; Grasping; PKA; Recovery; Rehabilitation; Single pellet

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AXONAL INJURY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN MAPPING; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CERVICAL SPINE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REHABILITATION CARE; STROKE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; CYCLIC AMP-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GROWTH CONES; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PARESIS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 59149101918     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2008.06600.x     Document Type: Article

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