Voluntary forced use of the impaired limb following stroke facilitates functional recovery in the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 261, Issue , 2014, Pages 210-219

  Livingston Thomas, Jessica M ^a,b   McGuire, Emily P ^a   Doucette, Tracy A ^a   Tasker, R Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Constraint induced movement therapy; Endothelin 1; Forced use; Neuroplasticity; Rehabilitation; Stroke

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DOUBLECORTIN; ENDOTHELIN 1;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN REGION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORPUS STRIATUM; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMB DISEASE; MALE; MICROGLIA; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

CONSTRAINT INDUCED MOVEMENT THERAPY; ENDOTHELIN-1; FORCED USE; NEUROPLASTICITY; REHABILITATION; STROKE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENDOTHELIN-1; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PHOSPHOPYRUVATE HYDRATASE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892460684     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.12.032     Document Type: Article

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