Pronounced species divergence in corticospinal tract reorganization and functional recovery after lateralized spinal cord injury favors primates

Science Translational Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 302, 2015, Pages

  Friedli, Lucia ^a   Rosenzweig, Ephron S ^b   Barraud, Quentin ^a   Schubert, Martin ^c   Dominici, Nadia ^a,d   Awai, Lea ^c   Nielson, Jessica L ^e   Musienko, Pavel ^a,f   Nout Lomas, Yvette ^g   Zhong, Hui ^h   Zdunowski, Sharon ^h   Roy, Roland R ^h   Strand, Sarah C ⁱ   Van Den Brand, Rubia ^a   Havton, Leif A ^j   Beattie, Michael S ^e   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^e   Bézard, Erwan ^k,l   Bloch, Jocelyne ^m   Edgerton, V Reggie ^h   Ferguson, Adam R ^e   Curt, Armin ^c   Tuszynski, Mark H ^b,n   Courtine, Grégoire ^a,m   more..

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BALGRIST UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f ST PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^g Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^l INSTITUT DES MALADIES NEURODÉGÉNÉRATIVES   (France)

^m LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

ⁿ VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORTICOSPINAL AXON DENSITY; CORTICOSPINAL DETOUR CIRCUIT; CORTICOSPINAL TRACT REORGANIZATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GAIT; HAND FUNCTION; HAPLORHINI; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTERSPECIES DIFFERENCE; KINEMATICS; LATERALIZED SPINAL CORD INJURY; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVOUS SYSTEM ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRIPLEGIA; RAT; REHABILITATION CARE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPINAL CORD INJURY; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; ANIMAL; PATHOLOGY; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

ANIMALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 84940416986     PISSN: 19466234     EISSN: 19466242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.aac5811     Document Type: Article

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