Effects of spinal cord injury induced changes in muscle activation on foot drag in a computational 1 rat ankle model 2 Brian

Effects of spinal cord injury induced changes in muscle activation on foot drag in a computational 1 rat ankle model 2 Brian K. Hillen 1,2 , Devin L. Jindrich 1,3 , James J. Abbas 1,2 , Gary T. Yamaguchi 4 , Ranu Jung 1,2,5 3 4 Contributions: 5 BKH was responsible for data collection, data analysis, experimental design, and the lead on manuscript 6 writing and figure design. 7 DLJ contributed to model design and manuscript preparation. 8 JJA contributed to model and experimental design and manuscript preparation. 9 GTY contributed to model and experimental design. 10 RJ contributed to model and experimental design and manuscript preparation and gave final approval of 11 the version to be published. 12 All authors read and approved the final manuscript. 13 Affiliation: 14 Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287-4404 15 School Biological and Health Systems Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287 16 School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287 17 Exponent, Inc., Tempe, AZ, 85027 18 5 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, FL, 33174 19 Running Head 20 Spinal cord injury induced changes in muscle activation 21 Contact Information 22 Ranu Jung: [email protected] 23 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Florida International University, 10555 W Flagler St, EC2602 24 Miami, FL 33174 25 Articles in PresS. J Neurophysiol (February 11, 2015). doi:10.1152/jn.00507.2014