Rats with partial striatal dopamine depletions exhibit robust and long-lasting behavioral deficits in a simple fixed-ratio bar-pressing task

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 25-40

  Lindner, Mark D ^a   Plone, Melissa A ^a   Francis, Jonathan M ^a   Blaney, Thomas J ^a   Salamone, John D ^b   Emerich, Dwaine F ^a  

^a CytoTherapeutics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine depletions; Endurance; Maximum capacity; Movement speed; Operant conditioning; Parkinsonian symptoms; Partial lesion; Skilled motor function

Indexed keywords

CARBIDOPA; CARBIDOPA PLUS LEVODOPA; LEVODOPA; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE BRAIN LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; HYPOKINESIA; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RIGIDITY;

EID: 0030970075     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02240-1     Document Type: Article

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