Treadmill training promotes spinal changes leading to locomotor recovery after partial spinal cord injury in cats

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 109, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2909-2922

  Martinez, Marina ^a,b   Delivet Mongrain, Hugo ^a   Rossignol, Serge ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTES OF HEALTH RESEARCH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cat; Locomotor training; Plasticity; Recovery; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE DURATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; PARESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD HEMISECTION; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD LESION; SPINAL CORD TRANSSECTION; THORACIC SPINAL CORD; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT DURATION;

CAT; LOCOMOTOR TRAINING; PLASTICITY; RECOVERY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; CATS; FEMALE; HINDLIMB; PHYSICAL EXERTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING;

EID: 84879173098     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.01044.2012     Document Type: Article

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