Disruption of cerebellar maturation by an antimitotic agent impairs the ontogeny of eyeblink conditioning in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 1995, Pages 7301-7314

  Freeman Jr , John H ^a,c   Barone Jr , Stan ^b   Stanton, Mark E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

antimitotic; cerebellum; conditioning; methylazoxymethanol (MAM); ontogeny; rat

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CEREBELLUM; CEREBELLUM HYPOPLASIA; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; MAZE TEST; NEUROANATOMY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0028804826     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.15-11-07301.1995     Document Type: Article

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