Deconstructing locomotor networks with experimental injury to define their membership

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1198, Issue , 2010, Pages 242-251

  Nistri, Andrea ^a,b   Taccola, Giuliano ^a,b   Mladinic, Miranda ^a,b   Margaryan, Gayane ^a   Kuzhandaivel, Anujaianthi ^a  

^a SISSA   (Italy)

^b Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Institute   (Italy)

Author keywords

central pattern generator; excitotoxicity; oxygen glucose deprivation; reactive oxygen species; rhythmogenesis; spinal injury

Indexed keywords

KAINIC ACID; OXYGEN RADICAL; AMINO ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CONVULSANT AGENT; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NEUROTOXIN; STRYCHNINE;

BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXCITOTOXICITY; GRAY MATTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPOXIA; IN VITRO STUDY; LOCOMOTION; METABOLIC DISORDER; MOTONEURON; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE INJURY; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPINE INJURY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHRONIC DISEASE; INJURY; INTERNEURON; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONVULSANTS; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; GLUTAMATES; INTERNEURONS; KAINIC ACID; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; NERVE NET; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; RATS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STRYCHNINE; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77952876712     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05427.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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