Analysis of limb use by control rats and unilateral DA-depleted rats in the Montoya staircase test: Movements, impairments and compensatory strategies

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 89, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 167-177

  Whishaw, Ian Q ^a   Woodward, Nicole C ^a   Miklyaeva, Elena ^a   Pellis, Sergio M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

6 OHDA lesions; Behavioral compensation; Dopamine and forelimb use; Dopamine and posture; Parkinson rat; Reaching tests; Skilled reaching; Staircase test

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; OXIDOPAMINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; LIMB MOVEMENT; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SMELLING; TONGUE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DOPAMINE; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOVEMENT; OXIDOPAMINE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; ROTATION; SYMPATHECTOMY, CHEMICAL; SYMPATHOLYTICS; TONGUE;

EID: 0031422022     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(97)00057-0     Document Type: Article

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