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- 3Rehabilitation
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- 1Alvarado, Laura
- 1Bamford, Jeremy, Andrew
- 1Bergquist, Austin J
- 1Clair, Joanna
- 1D'Amico, Jessica M
- 1Gyawali, Selina
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- 2Fouad, Karim (Rehabilitation Medicine)
- 1Bennett, David (Rehabilitation Medicine)
- 1Bennett, David J. (Rehabilitation Medicine)
- 1Collins, David F (Physical Education and Recreation)
- 1Collins, David F. (Physical Education and Recreation/ Centre for Neuroscience)
- 1Fouad, Karim (Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine)
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The role fo the adrenergic system in the recovery of motoneuron excitability and spasms after spinal cord injury
DownloadSpring 2011
Brainstem derived noradrenaline (NA) in the spinal cord functions both to increase motoneuron excitability, by facilitating calcium-mediated persistent inward currents (Ca PICs), and to inhibit sensory afferent transmission to motoneurons (excitatory postsynaptic potentials; EPSPs). Spinal cord...
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Fall 2010
Brainstem derived serotonin (5-HT) normally facilitates spinal motoneuron excitability and inhibits sensory afferent transmission and associated spinal reflexes. Because the 5-HT innervation of the spinal cord is almost exclusively derived from brainstem neurons, spinal cord injury leads to an...
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