Comprehensive locomotor outcomes correlate to hyperacute diffusion tensor measures after spinal cord injury in the adult rat

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 188-196

  Kim, Joong H ^a   Song, Sheng Kwei ^a   Burke, Darlene A ^b   Magnuson, David S K ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging; Electrophysiology; Locomotor function; Spared white matter; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; FLACCID PARALYSIS; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; LATERAL SPINAL FUNICULUS; LIMB MOVEMENT; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL NERVE; SPINAL SHOCK; WHITE MATTER;

ANIMALS; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84859892297     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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