Behavioral correlates of transneuronal degeneration of substantia nigra reticulata neurons are reversed by ablation of the subthalamic nucleus

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 84, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 63-71

  Saji, Makoto ^a   Endo, Yukio ^a   Miyanishi, Tatsuya ^a   Volpe, Bruce T ^b   Ohno, Kousaku ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

forced swim test; ibotenic acid lesion; movement disorder; rat; substantia nigra reticulata; subthalamic nucleus; transneuronal cell death

Indexed keywords

IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NERVE DEGENERATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENES, FOS; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; ROTATION; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; SWIMMING; THALAMIC NUCLEI;

EID: 0031058714     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(96)02174-2     Document Type: Article

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