Combined SCI and TBI: Recovery of forelimb function after unilateral cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) is retarded by contralateral traumatic brain injury (TBI), and ipsilateral TBI balances the effects of SCI on paw placement

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 248, Issue , 2013, Pages 136-147

  Inoue, Tomoo ^a,b   Lin, Amity ^a,b   Ma, Xiaokui ^a,b   McKenna, Stephen L ^c   Creasey, Graham H ^d   Manley, Geoffrey T ^a,b   Ferguson, Adam R ^a,b   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^a,b   Beattie, Michael S ^a,b  

^a SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

'Dual diagnosis'; Behavioral analysis; Neuronal plasticity; Spinal cord injury; Traumatic brain injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CERVICAL SPINAL CORD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORELIMB; GROOMING; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LIMB DISEASE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORIMOTOR CORTEX; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

'DUAL DIAGNOSIS'; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVA; BASSO,BEATTIE,BRESNAHAN LOCOMOTOR RATING SCALE; BBB; BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS; CCI; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CORTICAL IMPACT; CT; HD; HIGH DEFINITION; IBB; IH; INFINITE HORIZONS IMPACTOR; IRVINE,BEATTIES,BRESNAHAN FORELIMB RATING SCALE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MRI; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PBS; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; SCI; SEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STANDARD ERROR OF THE MEAN; TBI; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GROOMING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84880011526     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: 10902430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2013.06.006     Document Type: Article

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