The paper “Acute Invasive Dorso-Ventral DCS Applied With a Ball Electrode Does Not Alter Spinal Motoneurons’ Firing Characteristics in the SOD-1 G93A Mouse Model of ALS” was recently published in the European Journal of Neuroscinece. This work was co-authored by PhD student Leonor de Oliveira Pires and IBEB researcher and professor Sofia Rita Fernandes.
This work investigates the effects of invasive spinal direct-current stimulation (DCS) in the animal model of ALS (SOD1 mouse) on spinal motoneuron excitability. The computational model developed by the IBEB researchers confirmed the distribution of the electric field produced by the stimulation, which supports the experimental results obtained.
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