Substantia nigra pars reticulata single unit activity in normal and 60HDA-lesioned rats: Effects of intrastriatal apomorphine and subthalamic lesions

Synapse

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 278-293

  Murer, M Gustavo ^a   Riquelme, Luis A ^a   Tseng, Kuei Y ^a   Pazo, Jorge H ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

6 hydroxydopamine lesion; Basal ganglia; Dopamine agonists and receptors; Extracellular recording; Parkinson's disease; Striatum; Substantia nigra pars reticulata; Subthalamic nucleus

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; KAINIC ACID; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SINGLE UNIT ACTIVITY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SUBTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; APOMORPHINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; KAINIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; OXIDOPAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0030683499     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(199712)27:4<278::AID-SYN2>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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