Neuromuscular Disorders
Volume 19, Issue 11 , Pages 788-796 , November 2009

Gait analysis using accelerometry in dystrophin-deficient dogs

  • Inès Barthélémy

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, 94704 Maisons-Alfort, France
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  • Eric Barrey

      Affiliations

    • INRA, Génétique animale et biologie intégrative, 78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France
    • Unité de biologie intégrative des adaptations à l’effort, INSERM 902, 91000 Evry, France
    • ,
  • Jean-Laurent Thibaud

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, 94704 Maisons-Alfort, France
    • ,
  • Ane Uriarte

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, 94704 Maisons-Alfort, France
    • ,
  • Thomas Voit

      Affiliations

    • Institut de Myologie, Université Paris 6 UMR S974, Inserm U974, CNRS UMR 7215, GH Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • ,
  • Stéphane Blot

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Neurobiologie, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, 94704 Maisons-Alfort, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Tel.: +33 143967171; fax: +33 143967089 (S. Blot), tel.: +33 142165880; fax: +33 142165881 (J.-Y. Hogrel).
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  • Jean-Yves Hogrel

      Affiliations

    • Institut de Myologie, Université Paris 6 UMR S974, Inserm U974, CNRS UMR 7215, GH Pitié-Salpêtrière, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding authors. Tel.: +33 143967171; fax: +33 143967089 (S. Blot), tel.: +33 142165880; fax: +33 142165881 (J.-Y. Hogrel).

Received 14 April 2009 ,Revised 10 July 2009 ,Accepted 31 July 2009.

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PII: S0960-8966(09)00578-1

doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2009.07.014

Neuromuscular Disorders
Volume 19, Issue 11 , Pages 788-796 , November 2009

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