Analysis of Recovery From Behavioral Asymmetries Induced by Unilateral Removal of Vibrissae in the Rat

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 1067-1074

  Milani, Humberto ^a   Steiner, Heinz ^a   Huston, Joseph P ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BEHAVIOR; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RAT; VIBRISSA;

ANIMAL; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORIENTATION; PROPRIOCEPTION; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; TRIGEMINAL NERVE; VIBRISSAE;

EID: 0024342902     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.103.5.1067     Document Type: Article

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