Tail spasms in rat spinal cord injury: Changes in interneuronal connectivity

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 179-189

  Kapitza, Sandra ^a   Zörner, Björn ^a   Weinmann, Oliver ^a   Bolliger, Marc ^b   Filli, Linard ^a   Dietz, Volker ^b   Schwab, Martin E ^a  

^a University of Zurich Brain Research Institute   (Switzerland)

^b BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Immunohistochemistry; Interneuron; Spasticity; Spinal cord injury; Spinal networks

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL INTERACTION; CELL LOSS; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTONEURON; MOTOR CONTROL; MUSCLE SPASM; MYOTATIC REFLEX; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPASTICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; FEMALE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; INTERNEURONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR NEURONS; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPASM; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TAIL;

EID: 84861680897     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.04.023     Document Type: Article

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