Quantifying changes following spinal cord injury with velocity dependent locomotor measures

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 214, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 27-36

  Neckel, Nathan D ^a   Dai, Haining ^a   Bregman, Barbara S ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Functional deficits; Injury; Locomotion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VELOCITY; WALKING SPEED;

ANIMALS; ATAXIA; BIOMECHANICS; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HINDLIMB; LAMENESS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; WALKING;

EID: 84873247512     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2013.01.008     Document Type: Article

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