Chapter 7 Methods and Protocols in Peripheral Nerve Regeneration Experimental Research. Part IV-Kinematic Gait Analysis to Quantify Peripheral Nerve Regeneration in the Rat

International Review of Neurobiology

Volumn 87, Issue C, 2009, Pages 127-139

  Costa, Luís M ^a   Simões, Maria J ^b   Maurício, Ana C ^b   Varejão, Artur S P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRÁS OS MONTES AND ALTO DOURO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AUTOTOMY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPUTERIZED GAIT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; NERVE FUNCTION; NERVE REGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIATIC NERVE; WALKING; WALKING TRACK ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ANIMALS; ANKLE; BIOMECHANICS; FORELIMB; GAIT; NERVE REGENERATION; PERIPHERAL NERVES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WALKING;

EID: 70349787577     PISSN: 00747742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0074-7742(09)87007-4     Document Type: Review

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