Characterization of recovered walking patterns and motor control after contusive spinal cord injury in rats

Brain and Behavior

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 541-552

  Hansen, Christopher N ^a   Linklater, William ^a   Santiago, Raquel ^a   Fisher, Lesley C ^a   Moran, Stephanie ^a   Buford, John A ^a   Michele Basso, D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Locomotion; Rehabilitation; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONTUSION; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HINDLIMB; KINEMATICS; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR COORDINATION; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMITENDINOUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TREADMILL;

EID: 84881180501     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21623279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/brb3.71     Document Type: Article

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