Motor deficits and recovery in rats with unilateral spinal cord hemisection mimic the Brown-Séquard syndrome

Brain

Volumn 134, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2261-2273

  Filli, Linard ^a   Zörner, Björn ^a   Weinmann, Oliver ^a   Schwab, Martin E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Brown S quard syndrome; locomotion; monoamines; spinal cord injury; spontaneous recovery

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; APOMORPHINE; CLONIDINE; METHOXAMINE; QUIPAZINE; SEROTONIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BROWN SEQUARD SYNDROME; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONVALESCENCE; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HINDLIMB; HISTOPATHOLOGY; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; LUMBAR SPINAL CORD; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; RETICULOSPINAL TRACT; RUBROSPINAL TRACT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; VESTIBULOSPINAL TRACT;

EID: 80051989950     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awr167     Document Type: Article

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