A quantitative framework for whole-body coordination reveals specific deficits in freely walking ataxic mice

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue OCTOBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Machado, Ana S ^a   Darmohray, Dana M ^a   Fayad, João ^a   Marques, Hugo G ^a   Carey, Megan R ^a  

^a CHAMPALIMAUD CENTRE FOR THE UNKNOWN   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BODY SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; MACHINE LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PURKINJE CELL; SCORING SYSTEM; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE; VELOCITY; WALKING; WALKING SPEED; ANIMAL; ATAXIC GAIT; BIOMECHANICS; HEAD; LIMB; LOCOMOTION; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TAIL;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICAL PHENOMENA; EXTREMITIES; GAIT ATAXIA; HEAD; LOCOMOTION; MICE; PURKINJE CELLS; TAIL;

EID: 84946600642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.07892     Document Type: Article

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