Passive Exercise of the Hind Limbs after Complete Thoracic Transection of the Spinal Cord Promotes Cortical Reorganization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Graziano, Alessandro ^b   Foffani, Guglielmo ^a,c   Knudsen, Eric B ^a   Shumsky, Jed ^b   Moxon, Karen A ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOSPITAL NACIONAL DE PARAPLÉJICOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROMODULIN; PROTEIN P35;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL REORGANIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HINDLIMB; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE EXERCISE; PLASTICITY; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR INTEGRATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION;

ADENYLATE CYCLASE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CEREBRAL CORTEX; EXERCISE; HINDLIMB; HUMANS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84872825436     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054350     Document Type: Article

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