Profiling locomotor recovery: Comprehensive quantification of impairments after CNS damage in rodents

Nature Methods

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 701-708

  Zörner, Björn ^a   Filli, Linard ^a   Starkey, Michelle L ^a   Gonzenbach, Roman ^a   Kasper, Hansjörg ^a   Röthlisberger, Martina ^a   Bolliger, Marc ^b   Schwab, Martin E ^a  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REMISSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STROKE; SWIMMING; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WALKING; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GAIT; LEWIS RAT; MOUSE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; FEMALE; GAIT; LOCOMOTION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SWIMMING; WALKING;

MUS MUSCULUS; RATTUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 77956343251     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1484     Document Type: Article

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