Longitudinal assessment of gait abnormalities following penetrating ballistic-like brain injury in rats

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-16

  Mountney, Andrea ^a   Leung, Lai Yee ^a   Pedersen, Rebecca ^a   Shear, Deborah ^a   Tortella, Frank ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY INSTITUTE OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

CatWalk; Gait analysis; Longitudinal profile; PBBI; TBI

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATWALK SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GAIT; INJURY SEVERITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HEAD INJURIES, PENETRATING; LOCOMOTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84867760561     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2012.08.025     Document Type: Article

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