Training following unilateral cervical spinal cord injury in rats affects the contralesional forelimb

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 539, Issue , 2013, Pages 77-81

  Weishaupt, N ^a   Vavrek, R ^a   Fouad, K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Horizontal ladder; Incomplete spinal cord injury; Rehabilitative training; Single pellet reaching; Task specific recovery

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL TRAINING; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REHABILITATION CARE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WALKING;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84875263939     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.01.043     Document Type: Article

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