Locomotor impact of beneficial or nonbeneficial H-reflex conditioning after spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 111, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1249-1258

  Chen, Yi ^a   Chen, Lu ^a   Liu, Rongliang ^a   Wang, Yu ^a   Chen, Xiang Yang ^a,b   Wolpaw, Jonathan R ^a,b,c  

^a WADSWORTH CENTER   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

H reflex; Motor control; Operant conditioning; Spinal cord injury; Spinal cord plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN CONDITIONING; ELECTROMYOGRAM; ELECTROMYOGRAPH ELECTRODE; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EXPERIMENTAL SPINAL CORD CONTUSION; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; KINEMATICS; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPINAL CORD; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD PLASTICITY; SPINAL REFLEX; UP CONDITIONING; YOUNG ADULT;

H-REFLEX; MOTOR CONTROL; OPERANT CONDITIONING; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD PLASTICITY;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84896962283     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: 15221598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00756.2013     Document Type: Article

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