Rapid and persistent impairments of the forelimb motor representations following cervical deafferentation in rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3702-3711

  Jiang, Yu Qiu ^a   Williams, Preston T J A ^a   Martin, John H ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Deafferentation; Motor control; Motor cortex; Spinal cord; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEAFFERENTATION; ELBOW; FORELIMB; HEMISPHERE; HINDLIMB; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOTOR SYSTEM; NERVE TRANSECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RHIZOTOMY; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

DEAFFERENTATION; MOTOR CONTROL; MOTOR CORTEX; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN MAPPING; FORELIMB; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOVEMENT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RHIZOTOMY; SENSATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPINAL NERVE ROOTS;

EID: 84890260906     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12372     Document Type: Article

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