Motor performance improved by exercises in cerebral ischemic rats

Journal of Motor Behavior

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 97-103

  Yang, Yea Ru ^a,b   Chang, Heng Chih ^a   Wang, Paulus S ^a   Wang, Ray Yau ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI CITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

angiogenesis; middle cerebral artery occlusion; motor function; motor training; striatum

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODEL; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84859195158     PISSN: 00222895     EISSN: 19401027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00222895.2012.654524     Document Type: Article

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