Enriched environment promotes efficiency of compensatory movements after cerebral ischemia in rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 759-769

  Knieling, M ^a   Metz, G A ^a,b   Antonow Schlorke, I ^a   Witte, O W ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

compensation; functional improvement; recovery; skilled reaching

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CIRCLING BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FORELIMB; HINDLIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; SKILL;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ENVIRONMENT; FORELIMB; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 70149087720     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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