Locomotor recovery after spinal cord lesions in the lamprey is associated with functional and ultrastructural changes below lesion sites

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 597-612

  Cooke, Ria Mishaal ^a   Parker, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lamprey; plasticity; spinal cord injury; synaptic plasticity; ultrastructure

Indexed keywords

TETRODOTOXIN;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPOLARIZATION; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LAMPREY; LOCOMOTION; MEMBRANE STEADY POTENTIAL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SPIKE; SPINAL CORD LESION; SYNAPSE; VENTRAL ROOT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURAL CONDUCTION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PETROMYZON; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 64849086516     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2008.0660     Document Type: Article

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