Novel Concept of Motor Functional Analysis for Spinal Cord Injury in Adult Mice

In basic research on spinal cord injury (SCI), behavioral evaluation of the SCI animal model is critical. However, it is difficult to accurately evaluate function in the mouse SCI model due to the small size of mice. Although the open-field scoring scale is an outstanding appraisal method, supplemen...

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Main Authors: Munehisa Shinozaki, Yuichiro Takahashi, Masahiko Mukaino, Nobuhito Saito, Yoshiaki Toyama, Hideyuki Okano, Masaya Nakamura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2011-01-01
Series:Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/157458