Adaptive Mechanisms of Spinal Locomotion in Cats
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Adaptive Mechanisms of Spinal Locomotion in Cats1
SYNOPSIS. This paper reviews some aspects of locomotor plasticity after spinalisation and after peripheral nerve lesions. Adult cats can recover spontaneous hindlimb locomotion on a treadmill several days or weeks after a complete section of the spinal cord at T13. The kinematics as well as the electromyographic activity are compared in the same animal before and after the spinal section to hig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Integrative and Comparative Biology
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1540-7063,1557-7023
DOI: 10.1093/icb/44.1.71