How spinalized rats can walk: Biomechanics, cortex, and hindlimb muscle scaling - Implications for rehabilitation

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1198, Issue , 2010, Pages 279-293

  Giszter, Simon F ^a   Hockensmith, Greg ^a   Ramakrishnan, Arun ^a   Udoekwere, Ubong Ime ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cortex; locomotion; muscle scaling; pattern generation; spinal transection

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HINDLIMB; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDING; WALKING; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MORPHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; WEIGHT BEARING;

RATTUS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BIOMECHANICS; BODY PATTERNING; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HINDLIMB; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RATS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING; WEIGHT-BEARING;

EID: 77954574722     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2010.05534.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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