@article{ref1,
title="Evaluation of experimental spinal cord injury by measuring spontaneous spinal cord potentials",
journal="Journal of neurosurgery",
year="1978",
author="Molt, J. T. and Poulos, D. A. and Bourke, R. S.",
volume="48",
number="6",
pages="985-992",
abstract="The relationship between the spontaneous spinal electrogram and the degree of spinal cord injury was studied in anesthetic-free, surgically decerebrate cats that received experimental blunt trauma by the graded weight-drop method. It was found that the characteristic spontaneous slow negative potential of the spinal electrogram showed a frequency dependency that correlated positively with the intensity of the injury (impulse expressed in gm-sec). Graphs of the frequency of occurrence of the slow negative potentials as a function of time following initial injury indicated that both the slope and shape of the curve were dependent on the severity of the injury measured in gm-sec at the time of the injury and confirmed histologically. These results indicate that the spontaneous spinal electrogram may serve as a sensitive indicator of the degree of spinal cord injury and may be useful in the assessment of various treatment modalities.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-3085",
doi="10.3171/jns.1978.48.6.0985",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3171/jns.1978.48.6.0985"
}