Rehabilitation drives enhancement of neuronal structure in functionally relevant neuronal subsets

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2750-2755

  Wang, Ling ^a   Conner, James M ^a   Nagahara, Alan H ^a   Tuszynski, Mark H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell filling; Cholinergic; Corticospinal neurons; Morphology; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FORELIMB; LEARNING; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROREHABILITATION; NONHUMAN; OVEREXERTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURIES; DENDRITE; DISEASE MODEL; FISCHER 344 RAT; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN INJURIES; DENDRITES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FORELIMB; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR SKILLS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; RATS, INBRED F344;

EID: 84960461200     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1514682113     Document Type: Article

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