Examination of the Combined Effects of Chondroitinase ABC, Growth Factors and Locomotor Training following Compressive Spinal Cord Injury on Neuroanatomical Plasticity and Kinematics

Olivier Alluin; Hugo Delivet-Mongrain; Marie-Krystel Gauthier; Michael G. Fehlings; Serge Rossignol; Soheila Karimi-Abdolrezaee

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0111072

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Examination of the Combined Effects of Chondroitinase ABC, Growth Factors and Locomotor Training following Compressive Spinal Cord Injury on Neuroanatomical Plasticity and Kinematics

Olivier Alluin,

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Team in Locomotor Rehabilitation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central (GRSNC) of the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), Department of Physiology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Hugo Delivet-Mongrain ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Delivet-Mongrain, Marie-Krystel Gauthier

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Team in Locomotor Rehabilitation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central (GRSNC) of the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), Department of Physiology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Marie-Krystel Gauthier ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Hugo Delivet-Mongrain, Marie-Krystel Gauthier

Affiliation The Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology and the Spinal Cord Research Center, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Michael G. Fehlings,

Affiliation Department of Surgery and Spinal Program, University of Toronto; Toronto Western Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Serge Rossignol,

Affiliation Multidisciplinary Team in Locomotor Rehabilitation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Groupe de Recherche sur le Système Nerveux Central (GRSNC) of the Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), Department of Physiology, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Soheila Karimi-Abdolrezaee

* E-mail: soheila.karimi@med.umanitoba.ca

Affiliations The Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology and the Spinal Cord Research Center, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Regenerative Medicine Program and Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Examination of the Combined Effects of Chondroitinase ABC, Growth Factors and Locomotor Training following Compressive Spinal Cord Injury on Neuroanatomical Plasticity and Kinematics

Olivier Alluin,
Hugo Delivet-Mongrain,
Marie-Krystel Gauthier,
Michael G. Fehlings,
Serge Rossignol,
Soheila Karimi-Abdolrezaee

Published: October 28, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0111072

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