Wind-up of stretch reflexes as a measure of spasticity in chronic spinalized rats: The effects of passive exercise and modafinil

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 104-109

  Garrison, M Kevin ^a,b   Yates, Charlotte C ^a,b   Reese, Nancy B ^a,b   Skinner, Robert D ^a   Garcia Rill, Edgar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Exercise; H reflex; Modafinil; Spasticity; Spinal cord injury; Stretch reflex

Indexed keywords

MODAFINIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANKLE; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HYPERREFLEXIA; JOINT FUNCTION; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TORQUE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEUROPROTECTIVE AGENTS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, STRETCH; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; TORQUE;

EID: 78650949334     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.09.019     Document Type: Article

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