Fluoxetine treatment promotes functional recovery in a rat model of cervical spinal cord injury

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Scali, Manuela ^a,b   Begenisic, Tatjana ^a,b   Mainardi, Marco ^a   Milanese, Marco ^c   Bonifacino, Tiziana ^c   Bonanno, Giambattista ^c   Sale, Alessandro ^a   Maffei, Lamberto ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECT; GAIT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIME; DRUG EFFECTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUOXETINE; GAIT; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84880376659     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02217     Document Type: Article

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