Plasticity of the Injured Human Spinal Cord: Insights Revealed by Spinal Cord Functional MRI

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Cadotte, David W ^a,b   Bosma, Rachael ^c   Mikulis, David ^b   Nugaeva, Natalia ^b   Smith, Karen ^d   Pokrupa, Ronald ^e   Islam, Omar ^e   Stroman, Patrick W ^c,e   Fehlings, Michael G ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Providence Continuing Care Centre   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOME; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; SENSATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866551221     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0045560     Document Type: Article

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