Hemispheric asymmetries in spontaneous firing characteristics of substantia nigra pars reticulata neurons following a unilateral 6- hydroxydopamine lesion of the rat nigrostriatal pathway

Brain Research

Volumn 761, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 352-356

  Rohlfs, A ^a,d   Nikkhah, G ^b   Rosenthal, C ^b   Rundfeldt, C ^a,e   Brandis, A ^c   Samii, M ^b   Loscher W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^b NORDSTADT HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^e Arzneimittelwerk   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aminobutyric acid (GABA); Basal ganglia; Dopamine; Parkinson's disease

Indexed keywords

6 HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURST FORMING UNIT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DENERVATION; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; NIGRONEOSTRIATAL SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; CORPUS STRIATUM; DENERVATION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OXIDOPAMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SYMPATHOLYTICS;

EID: 0030747835     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00475-7     Document Type: Article

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