Exercise induces cortical plasticity after neonatal spinal cord injury in the rat

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 7549-7557

  Kao, Tina ^a,c   Shumsky, Jed S ^a   Murray, Marion ^a   Moxon, Karen A ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; MICROELECTRODES; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PHYSICAL STIMULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TOUCH PERCEPTION;

EID: 67049109220     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2474-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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