Contribution of propriospinal neurons to recovery of hand dexterity after corticospinal tract lesions in monkeys

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

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 604-609

  Tohyama, Takamichi ^a,b   Kinoshita, Masaharu ^c   Kobayashi, Kenta ^a,d   Isa, Kaoru ^a   Watanabe, Dai ^e   Kobayashi, Kazuto ^f   Liu, Meigen ^b   Isa, Tadashi ^a,d,e   Strick, Peter L ^g  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d GRADUATE UNIVERSITY FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Neural circuit; Nonhuman primates; Plasticity; Spinal cord injury; Viral vector

Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR; ENHANCED CYAN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BEHAVIORAL OBSERVATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSPINAL TRACT LESION; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND MOVEMENT; HAPLORHINI; INDEX FINGER; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRECISION GRIP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOSPINAL NEURON; SPINAL CORD INJURY; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THUMB; VIDEORECORDING; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; GENE VECTOR; GENETICS; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; INNERVATION; INTERNEURON; MACACA; MALE; MOTONEURON; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC VECTORS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; INTERNEURONS; MACACA; MALE; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE REGENERATION; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 85009774808     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1610787114     Document Type: Article

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