Selective corticospinal tract injury in the rat induces primary afferent fiber sprouting in the spinal cord and hyperreflexia

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 37, 2012, Pages 12896-12908

  Tan, Andrew M ^a   Chakrabarty, Samit ^a,b   Kimura, Hiroki ^a   Martin, John H ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GRAY MATTER; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HYPERREFLEXIA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MICROGLIA; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE SPROUTING; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PYRAMIDAL SIGN; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; MALE; NERVE REGENERATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, ABNORMAL;

EID: 84866251989     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6451-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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