Motor dysfunction in a photothrombotic focal ischaemia model

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 113-120

  Wood, Nigel I ^a,b   Sopesen, Belen V ^a,c   Roberts, Jenny C ^a   Pambakian, Perouz ^a,d   Rothaul, Alan L ^a,e   Hunter, A Jackie ^a   Hamilton, Tom C ^a  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e British Biotech Pharmaceuticals Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Cerebral ischemia; Motor cortex; Photothrombosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0030221645     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0166-4328(95)00237-5     Document Type: Article

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