A Novel Method for Assessing Proximal and Distal Forelimb Function in the Rat: the Irvine, Beatties and Bresnahan (IBB) Forelimb Scale

Several experimental models of cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) have been developed recently to assess the consequences of damage to this level of the spinal cord (Pearse et al., 2005, Gensel et al., 2006, Anderson et al., 2009), as the majority of human SCI occur here (Young, 2010; www.sci-info-pa...

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Main Authors: Irvine, Karen-Amanda, Ferguson, Adam R., Mitchell, Kathleen D., Beattie, Stephanie B., Beattie, Michael S., Bresnahan, Jacqueline C.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: MyJove Corporation 2010
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3159659/