Cortical hyperexcitability in response to preserved spinothalamic inputs immediately after spinal cord hemisection

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 227, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 252-263

  Yague, J G ^a   Foffani, G ^a,b   Aguilar, J ^a  

^a HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLÉJICOS   (Spain)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical; Dorsal columns; Hemisection; Somatosensory cortex; Spinal cord injury; Spinothalamic

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; EVOKED CORTICAL RESPONSE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD DORSAL HORN; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THORACIC SPINAL CORD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINOTHALAMIC TRACTS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78651441820     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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