Serotonergic pharmacotherapy promotes cortical reorganization after spinal cord injury

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 241, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 84-94

  Ganzer, Patrick D ^a   Moxon, Karen A ^a,b   Knudsen, Eric B ^a   Shumsky, Jed S ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical plasticity; Pharmacotherapy; Primary somatosensory cortex; Spinal cord injury; Transection

Indexed keywords

2 DIPROPYLAMINO 8 HYDROXYTETRALIN; QUIPAZINE; SEROTONIN AGONIST;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL REORGANIZATION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; LOW DRUG DOSE; NERVE CELL MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

8-HYDROXY-2-(DI-N-PROPYLAMINO)TETRALIN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; PSYCHOMOTOR DISORDERS; QUIPAZINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR AGONISTS; SKIN; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872307366     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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