Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center

Recent Publications

Magnuson DSK, Smith RR, Brown EH, Enzmann G, Angeli C, Quesada PM and Burke DA. Swimming as a model of task-specific locomotor re-training after spinal cord injury in the rat. Neurorehab and Neural Repair. 23(6):535-45. 2009.

Smith RR, Brown EH, Shum-Siu A, Whelan A, Burke DA, Benton RL and Magnuson DSK. Swim training initiated acutely after spinal cord injury is ineffective and induces extravasation in and around the epicenter. J Neurotrauma 26(7): 1017-1027. 2009..

Hill RL, Zhang YP, Burke DA, DeVries WH, Zhang Y, Magnuson DSK, Whittemore SR, Shields CB. Anatomical and functional outcomes following a precise, graded, dorsal laceration spinal cord injury in C57BL/6 mice. J Neurotrauma 26: 1-15. 2009

Reed WR, Shum-Siu A, Magnuson DSK. Reticulospinal pathways in the ventrolateral funiculus with terminations in the cervical and lumbar enlargements of the adult rat spinal cord. Neuroscience 151: 505-517, 2008.

Smith RR, Burke DA, Baldini AD, Shum-Siu A, Baltzley R, Bunger M, Magnuson DS. The Louisville Swim Scale: A Novel Assessment of Hindlimb Function following Spinal Cord Injury in Adult Rats. J Neurotrauma 23:1654-1670, 2006.

Reed WR, Shum-Siu A, Onifer SM, Magnuson DS. Inter-enlargement pathways in the ventrolateral funiculus of the adult rat spinal cord. Neuroscience 142:1195-1207, 2006.

Beaumont E, Onifer SM, Reed W and Magnuson DS. Magnetically-evoked inter-enlargement responses: Characterization of a bilaterally represented propriospinal pathway in the adult rat. Exp Neurol 201:428-440, 2006

Smith RS, Shum-Siu A, Baltzley R, Bunger M, Baldini A and Magnuson DSK. The effects of cutaneous feedback and intensive training on locomotor recovery after incomplete spinal cord injury in rats. J. Neurotrauma 23:908-919   2006.

Magnuson DSK, Lovett MR, Coffee C, Gray RA, Han Y, Zhang YP, Burke DA Functional consequences of lumbar spinal cord contusion injuries in the adult rat. J Neurotrauma 22(5): 529-543, 2005.

Rao SC, Li X, Rao ChV, Magnuson DSK: Human chorionic gonadotropin/luteinizing hormone receptor expression in the adult rat spinal cord. Neurosci Lett 336:135-138, 2003.

Loy DN, Talbott JF, Onifer SM, Mills MD, Burke DA, Dennison JB, Fajardo LC, Magnuson DSK, Whittemore SR: Both dorsal and ventral spinal cord pathways contribute to overground locomotion in the adult rat. Exp Neurol 177:575-580, 2002.

Antonino-Green DM, Cheng J, Magnuson DSK: Neurons labeled from locomotor-related ventrolateral funiculus stimulus sites in the neonatal rat spinal cord. J Comp Neurol 442:226-238, 2002.

Loy DN, Magnuson DSK, Zhang YP, Onifer SM, Mills MD, Cao QL, Darnall JB, Fajardo LC, Burke DA, Whittemore SR: Functional redundancy of ventral spinal locomotor pathways. J Neurosci 22:315-323, 2002.