Functional involvement of the lumbar spinal cord after contusion to T8 spinal segment of the rat

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 781-792

  García Alías, Guillermo ^a,b   Torres Espín, Abel ^a,b   Vallejo, Carolina ^a,b   Navarro, Xavier ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DE NEUROCIÈNCIES   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

Author keywords

lumbar; Motoneuron; motor evoked potentials; nerve conduction; reactive astrocytes; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HYPERREFLEXIA; LOCOMOTION; MOTONEURON; MOTOR NERVE CONDUCTION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

EID: 78650300911     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2010-0549     Document Type: Article

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