Delayed Intervention with Intermittent Hypoxia and Task Training Improves Forelimb Function in a Rat Model of Cervical Spinal Injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 1403-1412

  Prosser Loose, Erin J ^a   Hassan, Atiq ^a   Mitchell, Gordon S ^b   Muir, Gillian D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

behavioral assessments; locomotor function; spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; BLADDER TRAINING; CERVICAL SPINE INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE DURATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR TEST; GRIP STRENGTH; GRIP STRENGTH TEST; INTERMITTENT HYPOXIA; KINESIOTHERAPY; LIMB MOVEMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE PARALYSIS; NONHUMAN; RAT; REWARD; STAIRCASE TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TREADMILL EXERCISE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ANIMAL; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CERVICAL VERTEBRA; FORELIMB; HAND STRENGTH; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INJURIES; LEWIS RAT; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING;

ANIMALS; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; EXERCISE THERAPY; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HAND STRENGTH; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; WALKING;

EID: 84941243616     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3789     Document Type: Article

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