Recovery of hindlimb locomotion after incomplete spinal cord injury in the cat involves spontaneous compensatory changes within the spinal locomotor circuitry

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1969-1984

  Martinez, Marina ^a,b   Delivet Mongrain, Hugo ^a   Leblond, Hugues ^a   Rossignol, Serge ^a,b  

^a Fonds de la Recherche en Sante du Quebec   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Central pattern generator; Dual lesion paradigm; Electromyography; Kinematics; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; INCOMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURY; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; TREADMILL;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; CORDOTOMY; DECEREBRATE STATE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HINDLIMB; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 80054027109     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00368.2011     Document Type: Article

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