A simple post hoc transformation that improves the metric properties of the BBB scale for rats with moderate to severe spinal cord injury

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1601-1613

  Ferguson, Adam R ^a,b   Hook, Michelle A ^a   Garcia, Guadalupe ^a   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^b   Beattie, Michael S ^b   Grau, James W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BBB; Locomotion; Recovery; Scale; Spinal cord injury

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BASSO BEATTIE BRESNAHAN OPEN FIELD LOCOMOTOR SCALE; CONTROLLED STUDY; INJURY SCALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; RAT; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPINAL CORD INJURIES;

EID: 8744310632     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2004.21.1601     Document Type: Article

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