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Influence of anti-Nogo-A antibody treatment on the reorganization of callosal connectivity of the premotor cortical areas following unilateral lesion of primary motor cortex (M1) in adult macaque monkeys

Hamadjida, Adjia ; Wyss, Alexander F. ; Mir, Anis ; Schwab, Martin E. ; Belhaj-Saif, Abderaouf ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: Experimental Brain Research, 2012, vol. 223, no. 3, p. 321-340

Following unilateral lesion of the primary motor cortex, the reorganization of callosal projections from the intact hemisphere to the ipsilesional premotor cortex (PM) was investigated in 7 adult macaque monkeys, in absence of treatment (control; n = 4) or treated with function blocking antibodies against the neurite growth inhibitory protein Nogo-A (n = 3). After functional recovery, though...

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Representation of motor habit in a sequence of repetitive reach and grasp movements performed by macaque monkeys: Evidence for a contribution of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

Kaeser, Mélanie ; Wannier, Thierry ; Brunet, Jean-François ; Wyss, Alexander F. ; Bloch, Jocelyne ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: Cortex, 2012, p. -

In the context of an autologous cell transplantation study, a unilateral biopsy of cortical tissue was surgically performed from the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) in two intact adult macaque monkeys (dlPFC lesioned group), together with the implantation of a chronic chamber providing access to the left motor cortex. Three other monkeys were subjected to the same chronic chamber...

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Effects of unilateral motor cortex lesion on ipsilesional hand's reach and grasp performance in monkeys: relationship with recovery in the contralesional hand

Kaeser, Mélanie ; Wyss, Alexander F. ; Bashir, Shahid ; Hamadjida, Adjia ; Liu, Yu ; Bloch, Jocelyne ; Brunet, Jean-François ; Belhaj-Saif, Abderraouf ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: Journal of Neurophysiology, 2010, p. -

Manual dexterity, a prerogative of primates, is under the control of the corticospinal (CS) tract. As 90-95% of CS axons decussate, it is assumed that this control is exerted essentially on the contralateral hand. Consistently, unilateral lesion of the hand representation in the motor cortex is followed by a complete loss of dexterity of the contralesional hand. During the months following...

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Reduction of the hand representation in the ipsilateral primary motor cortex following unilateral section of the corticospinal tract at cervical level in monkeys

Schmidlin, Eric ; Wannier, Thierry ; Bloch, Jocelyne ; Belhaj-Saif, Abderraouf ; Wyss, Alexander F. ; Rouiller, Eric M.

In: BMC Neuroscience, 2005, vol. 6, p. 56

Background: After sub-total hemi-section of cervical cord at level C7/C8 in monkeys, the ipsilesional hand exhibited a paralysis for a couple of weeks, followed by incomplete recovery of manual dexterity, reaching a plateau after 40–50 days. Recently, we demonstrated that the level of the plateau was related to the size of the lesion and that progressive plastic changes of the motor map...