Effects on locomotion, muscle, bone, and blood induced by a combination therapy eliciting weight-bearing stepping in nonassisted spinal cord-transected mice

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 234-242

  Guertin, Pierre A ^a,b,c   Ung, Roth Visal ^a   Rouleau, Pascal ^a   Steuer, Inge ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c Nordic Life Science Pipeline   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Functional recovery; Mice; Paraplegia; Spinal cord injury; Spinal cord transected; Treadmill; Walking

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; BENSERAZIDE; BUSPIRONE; LEVODOPA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; BONE DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARAPLEGIA; PATIENT SAFETY; PATTERN GENERATOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREADMILL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT BEARING;

ANIMALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 79954601076     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968310378753     Document Type: Article

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