Hyperactivity and hypoactivity in a rat model of Huntington's disease: The systemic 3-nitropropionic acid model

Brain Research Protocols

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 253-257

  Borlongan, Cesario V ^a   Koutouzis, Theodore K ^a   Freeman, Thomas B ^a   Hauser, Robert A ^a   Cahill, David W ^a   Sanberg, Paul R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Nitropropionic acid; Chronic systemic injection; Huntington's disease; Rat; Spontaneous locomotor activity

Indexed keywords

3 NITROPROPIONIC ACID; KAINIC ACID; QUINOLINIC ACID;

AKINESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRO COMPOUNDS; PROPIONIC ACIDS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0031400272     PISSN: 1385299X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1385-299X(96)00037-2     Document Type: Article

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