Rodent Estrous Cycle Response to Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury, Surgical Interventions, and Locomotor Training

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 996-1002

  Shah, Prithvi K ^a   Song, James ^a   Kim, Samuel ^a   Zhong, Hui ^a   Roy, Roland R ^a   Edgerton, V Reggie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

EMG surgery; Estrous cycle; Rodents; Spinal cord injury; Surgical intervention

Indexed keywords

DYE;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; LEG MUSCLE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STRESS; VAGINA SMEAR;

ANIMALS; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESTROUS CYCLE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 83055179982     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026032     Document Type: Article

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