Promotion of recovery from thoracic spinal cord contusion in rats by stimulation of medullary raphe or its midbrain input

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 374-384

  Hentall, Ian D ^a   Gonzalez, Melissa M Carballosa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

electrical stimulation; periaqueductal gray; raphe magnus; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; MICROELECTRODE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; RAPHE MAGNUS NUCLEUS; RAT; SPINE INJURY; THORACIC SPINE; WALKING; WHITE MATTER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SEROTONIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84860812516     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968311425178     Document Type: Article

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