Horizontal ladder task-specific re-training in adult rats with contusive thoracic spinal cord injury

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 275-286

  Onifer, Stephen M ^a   Zhang, Oliver ^a   Whitnel Smith, Laura K ^a   Raza, Kashif ^a   O'Dell, Christopher R ^a   Lyttle, Travis S ^a   Rabchevsky, Alexander G ^a   Kitzman, Patrick H ^a   Burke, Darlene A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

horizontal ladder; locomotion; re training; rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury; transcranial magnetic motor evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; GRAY MATTER; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOMETRICS; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TASK RETRAINING; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; THORACIC SPINAL CORD INJURY; VENTRAL ROOT; VENTROLATERAL FUNICULUS; WEIGHT BEARING; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MOVEMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 80051529624     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: 18783627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/RNN-2011-598     Document Type: Article

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