A Sensitive and Reliable Locomotor Rating Scale for Open Field Testing in Rats

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 1-21

  Basso, D Michele ^a   Beattie, Michael S ^a   Bresnahan, Jacqueline C ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTUSION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; LOCOMOTION; MICROPHOTOGRAPHY; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RAT; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SPINAL CORD INJURY; VIDEORECORDER;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CONTUSIONS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; THORAX; TIME FACTORS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0028919411     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.1995.12.1     Document Type: Article

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