Spinal cord plasticity in response to unilateral inhibition of the rat motor cortex during development: Changes to gene expression, muscle afferents and the ipsilateral corticospinal projection

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2555-2566

  Clowry, G J ^a,c   Davies, B M ^a   Upile, N S ^a   Gibson, C L ^a,d   Bradley, P M ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebral palsy; cJun; Immunocytochemistry; Motor cortex; Muscimol; Parvalbumin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLERA TOXIN B SUBUNIT; ETHYLENE VINYL ACETATE COPOLYMER; MUSCIMOL; PARVALBUMIN; POLYMER; PROTEIN C JUN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FORELIMB; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR CORTEX; MUSCLE SPINDLE AFFERENT NERVE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PYRAMIDAL TRACT; RAT; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL COUNT; CHOLERA TOXIN; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GABA AGONISTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOTOR CORTEX; MOTOR NEURONS; MUSCIMOL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PARVALBUMINS; POLYVINYLS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; PYRAMIDAL TRACTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPINAL CORD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 9644303241     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2004.03713.x     Document Type: Article

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