Post-stroke longitudinal alterations of inter-hemispheric correlation and hemispheric dominance in mouse pre-motor cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Vallone, Fabio ^a,b   Lai, Stefano ^b   Spalletti, Cristina ^a,b   Panarese, Alessandro ^b   Alia, Claudia ^c   Micera, Silvestro ^b,d   Caleo, Matteo ^a   Di Garbo, Angelo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b SCUOLA SUPERIORE SANT ANNA   (Italy)

^c SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^d EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CAUDAL FORELIMB AREA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONNECTOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; INTERHEMISPHERIC TRANSFER; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIMARY MOTOR CORTEX; ROSTRAL FORELIMB AREA; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTIFACT; BRAIN MAPPING; C57BL MOUSE; CONVALESCENCE; DISEASE MODEL; ELECTRODE; FORELIMB; INJURIES; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR EVOKED POTENTIAL; OSCILLOMETRY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE REHABILITATION; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTOR; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRAIN MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTRODES; EVOKED POTENTIALS, MOTOR; FORELIMB; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTOR CORTEX; OSCILLOMETRY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; STROKE; STROKE REHABILITATION; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84954517120     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0146858     Document Type: Article

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