Using motor behavior during an early critical period to restore skilled limb movement after damage to the corticospinal system during development

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 27, 2012, Pages 9265-9276

  Friel, Kathleen ^a,b   Chakrabarty, Samit ^a,b,c   Kuo, Hsing Ching ^a,b   Martin, John ^a,b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE ACETYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CAT; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOLOGY; INTERNEURON; LEARNING; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CATS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MALE; MOTOR SKILLS; MOTOR SKILLS DISORDERS; MOVEMENT; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PARESIS; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL;

EID: 84863439273     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1198-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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