Publication Date:
2012-10-23
Description:
Van den Brand et al. (Reports, 1 June 2012, p. 1182) claim to have restored voluntary control of locomotion after paralyzing spinal cord injury. They have not considered recent findings that their upright posture paradigm contributes to locomotor capability after such injuries. We propose that postural adjustments that activate the locomotor central pattern generator in the upright posture, rather than direct voluntary control of locomotion, account for their results.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Slawinska, Urszula -- Rossignol, Serge -- Bennett, David J -- Schmidt, Brian J -- Frigon, Alain -- Fouad, Karim -- Jordan, Larry M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2012 Oct 19;338(6105):328; author reply 328. doi: 10.1126/science.1226082.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Department of Neurophysiology, Warsaw, Poland.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23087231" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Female
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Hindlimb/*physiology
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*Locomotion
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Motor Cortex/*physiology
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Paralysis/*rehabilitation
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Pyramidal Tracts/*physiology
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*Robotics
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Spinal Cord Injuries/*rehabilitation
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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