Vagus nerve stimulation delivered during motor rehabilitation improves recovery in a rat model of stroke

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 698-706

  Khodaparast, Navid ^a   Hays, Seth A ^a   Sloan, Andrew M ^a   Fayyaz, Tabbassum ^a   Hulsey, Daniel R ^a   Rennaker, Robert L ^a   Kilgard, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

cortical ischemia; motor cortex; plasticity; recovery; rehabilitation; stroke

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRADYKINESIA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FORELIMB; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RAT; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; HYPOKINESIA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STROKE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HYPOKINESIA; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOTOR CORTEX; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84904255045     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314521006     Document Type: Article

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