Cervical intraspinal microstimulation evokes robust forelimb movements before and after injury

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Sunshine, Michael D ^a   Cho, Frances S ^b   Lockwood, Danielle R ^b   Fechko, Amber S ^a   Kasten, Michael R ^a   Moritz, Chet T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; INTRASPINAL MICROSTIMULATION; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCLE SYNERGIES; NEUROLOGICAL INJURY; PARALYZED LIMBS; SOMATOTOPIC MAPS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES (SCI);

ANIMALS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NEURONS; PATIENT REHABILITATION;

MUSCLE;

ISOFLURANE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CERVICAL INTRASPINAL MICROSTIMULATION; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FORELIMB MUSCLE; HAND MOVEMENT; LEG MUSCLE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTONEURON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARALYSIS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SPINAL CORD STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 84878289661     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/10/3/036001     Document Type: Article

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