Animal Models of Neurologic Disorders: A Nonhuman Primate Model of Spinal Cord Injury

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 380-392

  Nout, Yvette S ^a   Rosenzweig, Ephron S ^b   Brock, John H ^b   Strand, Sarah C ^c   Moseanko, Rod ^c   Hawbecker, Stephanie ^c   Zdunowski, Sharon ^d,f   Nielson, Jessica L ^g   Roy, Roland R ^d,f   Courtine, Gregoire ^h   Ferguson, Adam R ^g   Edgerton, V Reggie ^d,e,f   Beattie, Michael S ^g   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^g   Tuszynski, Mark H ^b,i  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology ^*  (United States)

^e Departments of Neurobiology and Neurosurgery   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

ⁱ VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown Sequard; Cervical Spinal Cord Injury; Hemisection; Monkey; Translational Medicine

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL CARE; ANOREXIA; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CELL LOSS; DEPRESSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MACACA MULATTA; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SAFETY; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREMOR; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRIMATES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84859699490     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: 18787479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13311-012-0114-0     Document Type: Review

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