Increases in human motoneuron excitability after cervical spinal cord injury depend on the level of injury

CK Thomas, CK Häger… - Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
excitable after C 4 SCI and less excitableinjury level-dependent effect on motoneuron
excitability may be related to the magnitude of the membrane depolarization following the injury

Central excitability contributes to supramaximal volitional contractions in human incomplete spinal cord injury

CK Thompson, MD Lewek, A Jayaraman… - The Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
cord injury (SCI) present clinically with partial control of muscles below the site of the injury,
but … This finding suggests that increases in spinal excitability following these maximal efforts …

Neuronal hyperexcitability: a substrate for central neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury

YS Gwak, CE Hulsebosch - Current pain and headache reports, 2011 - Springer
… horn after spinal cord injury (SCI). Spontaneous and evoked neuronal excitability normally
are … in the spinal dorsal horn, which serve as substrates for central neuropathic pain after SCI. …

Increased spinal reflex excitability is associated with enhanced central activation during voluntary lengthening contractions in human spinal cord injury

HE Kim, DM Corcos, TG Hornby - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
… spinal cord injury (SCI) subjects investigated patterns of central motor drive (ie, central
In a recent study of the knee extensors, SCI subjects demonstrated greater central activation …

Recovery of neuronal and network excitability after spinal cord injury and implications for spasticity

JM D'amico, EG Condliffe, KJB Martins… - Frontiers in integrative …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
… The state of areflexia and muscle weakness that immediately follows a spinal cord injury (SCI)
is gradually replaced by the recovery of neuronal and network excitability, leading to both …

Spinal motoneuron excitability after acute spinal cord injury in humans

AA Leis, MF Kronenberg, I Stetkarova, WC Paske… - Neurology, 1996 - AAN Enterprises
… The antidromic excitability of a particular … excitability of the extensor digitorum brevis
motoneuron pool, the findings are in agreement with investigations assessing antidromic excitability

Pathophysiological mechanisms of central neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury

PK Eide - Spinal Cord, 1998 - nature.com
… upregulation of neuronal activity/excitability. Changes in voltage-sensitive Na+ channels
may contribute to changes in nerve membrane excitability. Other important mechanisms may be …

[HTML][HTML] Excitotoxic spinal cord injury: behavioral and morphological characteristics of a central pain model

RP Yezierski, S Liu, GL Ruenes, KJ Kajander… - Pain, 1998 - Elsevier
… contributions of other components of the `central injury cascade' in producing the results of
… Although changes in the excitability and response characteristics of spinal sensory neurons …

Assessment of corticospinal excitability after traumatic spinal cord injury using MEP recruitment curves: a preliminary TMS study

R Nardone, Y Höller, A Thomschewski, AC Bathke… - Spinal Cord, 2015 - nature.com
… After spinal cord injury (SCI), plastic changes of neural circuits occur at various level of the
central nervous system. A number of studies have been performed to neurophysiologically …

Differential pain modulation properties in central neuropathic pain after spinal cord injury

H Gruener, G Zeilig, Y Laufer, N Blumen, R Defrin - Pain, 2016 - journals.lww.com
… neuronal excitability and that both traits are associated with spinothalamic tract (STT) damage.
Chronic spinal cord injury … pain (TSP), and spatial summation of pain above injury level. …