Sensorimotor learning and retention during equilibrium tests in Purkinje cell degeneration mutant mice

Brain Research

Volumn 768, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 310-316

  Le Marec, N ^a,b   Lalonde, R ^a,b  

^a Neurology Service   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balance; Cerebellum; Equilibrium; Mutant mouse; Purkinje cell; Sensorimotor learning

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY MOVEMENT; BODY POSTURE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CEREBELLUM CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPRIOCEPTION; PURKINJE CELL; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; VESTIBULOOCULAR REFLEX;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; NERVE DEGENERATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; PURKINJE CELLS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0030815548     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)00666-5     Document Type: Article

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