Task-dependent compensation after pyramidal tract and dorsolateral spinal lesions in rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 193-206

  Kanagal, Srikanth G ^a   Muir, Gillian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Compensation; Corticospinal tract; Dorsolateral funiculus; Ground reaction forces; Horizontal ladder; Kinematics; Kinetics; Locomotion; Rubrospinal tract; Skilled reaching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; HYPOTHESIS; KINEMATICS; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD LESION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR SKILLS; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RED NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 59749086321     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2008.11.028     Document Type: Article

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