Rehabilitative training promotes rapid motor recovery but delayed motor map reorganization in a rat cortical ischemic infarct model

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 472-482

  Nishibe, Mariko ^a   Urban, Edward T R ^b   Barbay, Scott ^b   Nudo, Randolph J ^b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebral cortex; Long Evans; neuronal plasticity; rats; rehabilitation; stroke

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FORELIMB; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; RAT; TOPOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTROSTIMULATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ENDOTHELIN-1; FORELIMB; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 84930701811     PISSN: 15459683     EISSN: 15526844     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1545968314543499     Document Type: Article

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