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Assessing Motor Outcome and Functional Recovery Following Nerve Injury

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Behavioral tests significantly contribute to our understanding of nerve function after experimental lesions and/or therapeutic intervention. In particular, the rat sciatic nerve has proven to be a valuable animal model to study nerve injury and repair. Here, we describe how to optimally use the commercially available CatWalk system to obtain a detailed and objective analysis of dynamic and static gait parameters.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by an FSR Incoming Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Académie Universitaire “Louvain”, co-funded by the Marie Curie Actions of the European Commision (to R.D.).

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  1. Institute of Neuroscience, Université Catholique de Louvain (U.C.L.), Brussels, Belgium

    Ronald Deumens & Claudia Marinangeli

  2. Department of Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Burn Centre, Medical Faculty, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Ahmet Bozkurt

  3. Medical Faculty, Institute of Neuropathology, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Gary Anthony Brook

  4. JARA – Translational Brain Medicine, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Ahmet Bozkurt & Gary Anthony Brook

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  1. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

    Andrew J. Murray

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Deumens, R., Marinangeli, C., Bozkurt, A., Brook, G.A. (2014). Assessing Motor Outcome and Functional Recovery Following Nerve Injury. In: Murray, A. (eds) Axon Growth and Regeneration. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1162. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0777-9_15

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