Effect of locomotor training in completely spinalized cats previously submitted to a spinal hemisection

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 32, 2012, Pages 10961-10970

  Martinez, Marina ^a,b   Delivet Mongrain, Hugo ^a   Leblond, Hugues ^a   Rossignol, Serge ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; HISTOLOGY; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; TOE; TRAINING; TREADMILL;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; CATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SACROCOCCYGEAL REGION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864843255     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1578-12.2012     Document Type: Article

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