Haloperidol-increased muscle tone in rats as a model of parkinsonian rigidity

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 268-276

  Lorenc Koci, E ^a   Wolfarth, S ^a   Ossowska, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Elektromyogram; Haloperidol; Mechanomyogram; Parkinsonism; Rigidity

Indexed keywords

HALOPERIDOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANKLE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HINDLIMB; JOINT MOBILITY; MALE; MUSCLE RIGIDITY; MUSCLE TONE; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TIBIALIS ANTERIOR MUSCLE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; HALOPERIDOL; JOINTS; MALE; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PARKINSON DISEASE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TIBIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029971631     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00231786     Document Type: Article

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