Re-expression of Locomotor Function After Partial Spinal Cord Injury
- 1 April 2009
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Physiological Society in Physiology
- Vol. 24 (2) , 127-139
- https://doi.org/10.1152/physiol.00042.2008
Abstract
After a complete spinal section, quadruped mammals (cats, rats, and mice) can generally regain hindlimb locomotion on a treadmill because the spinal cord below the lesion can express locomotion through a neural circuitry termed the central pattern generator (CPG). In this review, we propose that the spinal CPG also plays a crucial role in the locomotor recovery after incomplete spinal cord injury.This publication has 112 references indexed in Scilit:
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