Detecting ALS and Parkinson's disease in rats through locomotion analysis

Network Modeling and Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 63-68

  Tang, Wenlong ^a   Yarowsky, Paul ^b   Tasch, Uri ^a  

^a University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ALS; Locomotion analysis; Logistic regression model; PD; Rats

Indexed keywords

AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; GAIT; GENE MUTATION; LOCOMOTION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RAT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84949532174     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21926670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13721-012-0004-8     Document Type: Article

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