Spinal cord injuries: Principles and methods for outcome assessment

Neuromethods

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 273-298

  Åkesson, Elisabet ^a,b   Calzarossa, Cinzia ^a   Sundström, Erik ^a,b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b Rehab Station Stockholm/Spinalis   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Animal models; Functional assessment; Glutamate; Inflammation; Oxidative damage; Rodent; Secondary injury; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (CALCIUM); ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); CALCIUM ION; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; GLUTAMIC ACID; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; NOGO A ANTIBODY; PROTEIN NOGO A; SCAVENGER; SODIUM CALCIUM EXCHANGE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DISEASE MODEL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MYELITIS; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PENETRATING TRAUMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD ATROPHY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD REGENERATION; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; STAB WOUND; STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; WHITE MATTER INJURY;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84875445347     PISSN: 08932336     EISSN: 19406045     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-62703-197-4_13     Document Type: Article

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